MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hardline communists opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms staged a coup in August 1991, but the putsch failed two days later and ultimately hastened the collapse of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin foes criticised Vladimir Putin on Sunday at events commemorating the defeat of a coup that hastened the 1991 Soviet collapse, saying the Russian president had reversed ...

MOSCOW – Few Russians are marking Friday’s 25th anniversary of a coup attempt which heralded the demise of the Soviet Union, a holiday ignored in official circles because of its revolutionary, ...

MOSCOW Several dozen Russians gathered on Friday for a protest reunion to mark the 25th anniversary of a coup attempt which heralded the demise of the Soviet Union, a holiday ignored in official ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...

MOSCOW -- Thousands of Muscovites linked arms outside the Russian Parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, and helped foil a coup against then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup was over three ...

MOSCOW (AP) — His emotions have settled with time, and the details of the August 1991 coup attempt are fading. But a decade later, Mikhail Gorbachev s dark brown eyes still flash with contempt when ...