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Mikhail Gorbachev-Last Leader of USSR
: Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and promoting peaceful international relations. -
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Cold War Legacies-Ukraine
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Ukrainian Independence
Ukrainian Independence: An act passed by the Ukrainian government on August 24, 1991 that declared Ukraine as independent in response to USSR imposing central communist rule. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
Collapse of Soviet Union: On December 25, 1991, the Soviet empire broke up into 15 separate nations. This was the mark of the end of the cold war between USA and Russia. -
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George W. Bush- 43rd US president
George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States. He led his country's response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003. Bush officials ruled out military options and found that, given the deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations over the previous five years, they had few good levers to influence the Kremlin. The sanctions Washington applied at the time had little resonance in Moscow. -
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NATO expansion and rising tensions
: Relations started in 1994 with NATO and Ukraine and used in water driving crisis 1995. Many are against this alliance. Dialogue and cooperation started after the end of the Cold War, when newly independent Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (1991) and the Partnership for Peace program(1994). -
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Russo-Georgian War
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BArack Obama-44th US President
Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012. President Obama and European allies pledged Tuesday "to impose significant additional costs" on Russia for "serious violations" of a cease-fire in Ukraine, the White House said.They specifically said they would act "if Russian-backed separatists seek to gain new territory," said a statement issued ho -
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Vladimir Putin-President of Russia
Vlad Putin: President of Russia. He has a throttlehold on Ukraine, a grip this week’s brittle agreement in Minsk has not eased. Domesticating Ukraine through his routine tactics of threats and bribery was his first preference, but the invasion has had side benefits. It has demonstrated the costs of insubordination to Russians; and, since he thinks Ukraine’s government is merely a puppet of the West (the supposed will of its people being, to his ultracynical mind, merely a cover for Western intri -
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Russian annexation of Crimea
