Officially the USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, ... Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic > Joined the U.S.S.R.: 1936 > Declared independence: Dec. 16, 1991 > Name today: Kazakhstan ...

Hence, Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to secede from the USSR, declaring independence on Dec. 16, 1991. New buildings in Shevchenko city, now Aktau, on Mangyshlak Peninsula in ...

A detailed view of the American flag. Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images. This also raises the question why Democratic response to the use of the socialist attack has not been squarely ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowere… ...

President-elect Trump basks in victory at Ohio rally 04:02. Nazarbayev, who was first elected president of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990, has continued his despotic reign over the ...

This story has its roots in a decree adopted at a time when Kazakhstan still formed part of the Soviet Union. In November 1991, one month before the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ceased to exist, ...