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January 1979 - Cambodian Vietnamese War
December 1979 - The Soviet Army invades Afghanistan
August 1980 - Polish Solidarity Olympics in Moscow
February 1981 - Reagan inaugurated
December 1981 - Martial law in Poland
June 1982 - Israel invades Lebanon
October 1983 - US invasion of Grenada
November 1983 - Soviet nuclear forces placed on high alert
March 1985 - Gorbachev made General Secretary of the Communist party
April 1986 - Chernobyl nuclear disaster
October 1986 - Rejkjavik summit
April 1988 - Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan begins
April 1989 - Polish Round Table Agreement
June 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre
November 1989 - End of the Berlin Wall
February, March 1990 - Lithuania and Latvia declare independence
August 1990 - First Gulf War
January 1991 - January Events (Lithuania)
August 1991 - the failed August Coup, Ukraine declares independence
December 1991 - Belavezha Accords and the dissolution of the USSR
1992-1997 - Civil war in Tajikistan
1992-1997 - Civil war in Tajikistan
late 1993 - Russian constitutional crisis
August 1994 - First Chechen War
December 1994 - Russian troops enter Chechnya
August 1998 - Russian financial crisis
October 1999 - Second Chechen War
October 2001 - War in Afghanistan
March 2003 - Iraq War
Late 2004 - Orange Revolution
2005 - Isreal's evacates the Gaza strip
November 2006 - Litvinienko dies in London
April 2007 - Tallinn's Bronze Solider relocated
August 2007 - Financial crisis followed by recession
August 2008 - South Ossetia War
December 2011 - Duma elections and Civil unrest
March 2012 - Putin re-elected