BBC News published this video item, entitled “Thirty years of BBC World News – BBC News” – below is their description.
The BBC launched its first international television news channel thirty years ago on 11 March 1991.
That year saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War, IRA attacks in London and the very first website created. And the Nobel Peace Prize went to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Presenter David Eades looks back at three decades of live and breaking stories, the highlights and a few bloopers.
BBC News YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state (until 1990) governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government that had earlier replaced the monarchy of the Russian Empire.
On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union’s rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality.