Chronology 2, 1977-2019

«Judgement in Moscow, Contents»

WORLDYEARUSSR / RUSSIAV.K. BUKOVSKY
August: 6th World Psychiatric Congress (Honolulu)1977March: B. meets President Carter at White House
1978To Build a Castle:
My Life as a Dissenter*
5 December: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan1979
OLYMPIC GAMES*1980July: Summer Olympics
13 December: Martial law imposed in Poland*1981
1983Last CCE issue (No. 64)
1985March: Gorbachov
chosen to head CPSU
1986Death of
AnatolyMarchenko*

Release of Sakharov*
1987March: B. and nine others write The Letter of the Ten
9 November:
Fall of the Berlin Wall*

17 November:
“Velvet” Revolution
(Czechoslovakia)*

December: Ceausescu and wife executed*
1989April-May: 1st Congress of USSR People’s Deputies*

July: Soviet troops leave Afghanistan*

December:
Death of Andrei Sakharov*
1991
19-21 August:
Attempted putsch*

December:
End of the USSR
April: B. returns to Moscow
1992June-September:
CPSU on trial*
B. gains access to Central Committee archives
1994December:
1st Chechen War begins*
Jugement à Moscou
(French edn.)*
1995
1996July: Yeltsin re-elected.*

Moskovsky protsess
(Russian edition, Paris)*

August:
1st Chechen War ends
Suggestion B. should stand for Russian presidency*
Moskevsky proces
(Polish edition)*
1999August:
2nd Chechen War begins*

September:
Apartment-block bombings (Moscow, Buynaks and Volgodonsk).*

December: Yeltsin resigns,
succeeded by Putin.*
“Bukovsky Archive” online (700+ documents) launched by Julia Zaks and Leonid Chernikov.
20067 October: Murder of
Anna Politkovskaya, aged 48* (on Putin’s 54th birthday)
7-12 August:
Russo-Georgian war*
2008B. stands for RF Presidency
2009April: 2nd Chechen War ends*
February-March: Annexation of Crimea*2014March-May:
Invasion of east Ukraine
(Donetsk & Luhansk Regions)
2015September: Russian armed
forces sent to Syria
May: Judgment in Moscow (book edition)*201920 October: Vladimir K. BUKOVSKY dies, aged 76

See Chronology One: 1914-1976

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