The red flag that flew over the Kremlin, symbol of the USSR, was lowered. The Soviet Union – was over and Yeltsin was in control. “We are living in a new world,” Gorbachev said. In April ...

The former Soviet president ... accords that abolished the Soviet Union and replaced it with a Commonwealth of Independent States. On Dec. 25, 1991, the red flag was lowered over the Kremlin ...