1990 Photo Contest, General News, 1st prize
Photographer

Andrei Soloviev

ITAR-TASS

01 January, 1989

One hundred thousand demonstrators gather at the foot of Lenin's statue. As nationalists all over the Soviet Union clamoured for autonomy, ethnic strife hit many of the outlying republics where some 140 million non-Russians live.

About the photographer

Andrei Soloviev

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