Gennady Yanayev, 73, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, died Sept. 24 in Moscow. No cause of death was reported. In one of ...

Gennady Yanayev, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73, Russia's Communist Party announced Friday. In one of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hardline communists opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms staged a coup in August 1991, but the putsch failed two days later and ultimately hastened the collapse of ...

This story was originally published on Aug. 22, 1991. It has been republished following the Wagner group’s armed rebellion in Russia. President Mikhail Gorbachev returned to the seat of power in the ...

MOSCOW — Gennady Yanayev, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73, Russia's Communist Party announced Friday.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Milena Orlova did not think twice when she heard about the coup 20 years ago that threatened a return to hardline Communist rule in the Soviet Union. She quickly took the train to ...

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Today marks 30 years since dramatic political events in Russia - the failed coup in 1991 that brought the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. But as Charles Maynes reports from Moscow, attitudes ...

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MOSCOW – Few Russians are marking Friday’s 25th anniversary of a coup attempt which heralded the demise of the Soviet Union, a holiday ignored in official circles because of its revolutionary, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Several dozen Russians gathered on Friday for a protest reunion to mark the 25th anniversary of a coup attempt which heralded the demise of the Soviet Union, a holiday ignored in ...