Political developments in Russia-1991: 1987. (1987-1991)

Kremlin Embankment, the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Flag; chimes of the Spassky Tower of the Kremlin.

The Grand Kremlin Palace, the Basilica of the Kremlin's Ivan the Great Bell Tower and the Spassky tower.

Gorbachev stands from the rostrum of the Congress of People's Deputies.

The delegates in the hall, the deputy asleep during the meeting.

Yeltsin stands from the rostrum.

Events in Nagorno-Karabakh:

Fallen poles with barbed wire.

The border post.

Men with Azerbaijani flags by the river.

Soviet soldiers in Nagorny Karabakh.

Tanks on the streets of Moscow (from the upper point).

Checkpoint.

Thousands demonstrate in the streets of Moscow, police cordoned off protesters trying to prevent movement.

Meeting hall of the Congress of People's Deputies.

The queues in the shops in the streets of Moscow.

A woman wrote the numbers on the hands of people standing in line.

On the road passes a column of Soviet tanks.

Rally in Prague on Wenceslas Square.

Personnel of foreign trips and talks Gorbachev.

Armour on the street.

Soldiers guard the entrance to the building.

Boris Yeltsin and his entourage are on the village street.

Yeltsin examines emergency apartment.

The village - a rickety fence, wooden houses, barns.

Mikhail Gorbachev in the presidium of the various meetings.