Novinite: Most Russians still regret collapse of Soviet Union

Published Dec. 30, 2012 at 11:39 pm

Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (L) , Belarus's Supreme Soviet Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich (C) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin stand for applause Dec. 8, 1991 after signing a mutual assistance agreement stating that \"the Soviet Union as a geopolitical reality [and] a subject of international law has ceased to exist.\" The document simultaneously announces the creation of a new entity in the post-USSR territory - the Commonwealth of Independent States. AFP PHOTO NOVOSTI

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Over half of all Russians, mainly the elderly who have no access to the Internet, regret the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The data comes from a poll published on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the USSR, as reported by the Russian RIA-Novosti, cited by the Bulgarian News Agency BGNES.

The survey has been conducted by the All- Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) revealed.

On December 29, 1922, 90 years ago, the victorious Bolsheviks formed the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.