 BBC World Service. There have been big demonstrations in Moscow, Leningrad and Kishinev. You had the collapse of communism, the fall of the Soviet Union. Former Soviet republics have dissolved the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin tells President Gorbachev to resign now. The disintegration of the Soviet Union, which Lukashenko later described as a tragedy. For the first three years or so of independent Belarus, the head of state was the Speaker of the Parliament...