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Belovezha Accords

The agreement of 8 December 1991 in which Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declared the Soviet Union dissolved and founded the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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Dates
8 Dec 1991
Place
Belarus
Also known as
Belavezha Accords, Agreement Establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States

On 8 December 1991, at a hunting lodge in the Belovezha Forest in Belarus, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich declared that the USSR had ceased to exist and created the Commonwealth of Independent States. Gorbachev was not told in advance. US and Soviet records both tie the agreement to the end of the Union.

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  1. 8 Dec 1991 Belovezha Accords
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  1. Stanislau Shushkevich, First Leader Of Independent Belarus, Dead At 87, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 4 May 2022. Scholarship & press
    On December 8, 1991, Shushkevich, then the chairman of parliament, met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at a resort in a forest in western Belarus and signed the Belavezha Accords
    met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at a resort in a forest in western Belarus
  2. Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine's 1st president, dies, Associated Press, 10 May 2022. Scholarship & press
    later that year joined with the leaders of Russia and Belarus to sign an agreement on Dec. 8, 1991, which formally declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
  3. The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    In early December, Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus met in Brest to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), effectively declaring the demise of the Soviet Union.
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev's Resignation Speech, World History Commons, George Mason University, 25 Dec 1991. Primary record
    Dear compatriots, fellow citizens, as a result of the newly formed situation, creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, I cease my activities in the post of the U.S.S.R. president.
  5. Belovezha Accords, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Scholarship & press
    On 8 December 1991, the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus agreed on the dissolution of the USSR and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place.
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