Former President of Kyrgyzstan (1990-2005)

president azerbaijan army general

Former Interior Minister of the U.S.S.R. (1988-1990); last KGB Director (1991)

Former President of Lithuania (1992-1998), Former Prime Minister of Lithuania (2001 - 2006)

Politician

Russian politician, and last chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR

Ukraine politician (1933-2022), First President of the independent Ukraine (1991-94). Signed 1991 document with Boris Yeltsin stating the Soviet Union no longer existed, leading to Gorbachev's resignation

Former President of Ukraine

Soviet politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Originally a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachyov became a challenger to his leadership

President of Belarus

Owner of the New Jersey Nets and Russian billionaire

President Of Russia

Russian Politician, former Georgian President

Russian politician, since 2010 mayor of Moscow

Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist

Prime minister of Ukraine (2006 - now) and presidential candidate in 2004