Signing of the Belovezh Accords in Belarus

Belarus. Brest Region. President of Ukraine Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich and President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (from left to right) after the signing ceremony of the "Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States", which also stated the end of the Soviet Union as a subject of international law, at the government dacha "Viskuli" in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Dmitry Sokolov/TASS