The Belovezh Accords were an agreement signed in a hunting lodge in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha forest, in Belarus, by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich. They declared that the Soviet Union, whose founding treaty of 1922 they had signed as successor states, had ceased to exist as a subject of international law, and set up the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place. The move followed the attempted coup in August 1991 and Ukraine's vote for independence. Other republics joined the Commonwealth a few weeks later at Alma-Ata. Mikhail Gorbachev, who had not been consulted, resigned as president of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day.
Before and after
- from 31 October 1991 to 4 November 1991Operation Swath-10
- 2 November 1991Release of Vim
- from 16 November 1991 to 30 November 1991The first Women's World Cup is played in China
- 24 November 1991Death of Freddie Mercury
- 8 December 1991Belovezh Accords
- 8 December 1991Founding of Commonwealth of Independent States
- 26 December 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 28 December 1991Publication of Sailor Moon
- 1992Construction of K'gari
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