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Armenia and Azerbaijan: the problem of
Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region |
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Moldova: reinstating the Latin alphabet in place
of the Cyrillic one |
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Baltic republics: the struggle to compel the
Soviet authorities to admit officially the illegality of the 1939
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact |
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In 1990 elections popular fronts won
parliamentary majority in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Armenia, and
Georgia... |
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Or entered republican parliaments as powerful
opposition:
Rukh in the Ukraine,
popular fronts in Azerbaijan and
Byelorussia |
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On 1 December 1991 at the referendum in the
Ukraine the majority of the Ukrainians voted in favour of their
country's independence |