By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
January 9, 2023 at 06:30 JST
Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves his state’s national tricolor on Aug. 22, 1991, in Moscow in front of citizens turning out for a gathering to celebrate the victory against a conservatives’ coup that started with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s house arrest on Aug. 19 but ended in failure just days later in the afternoon of Aug. 21. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 before the country collapsed under the weight of his reform programs. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
