AZ
LT
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18.09.1988
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1988
AR
LT
LT
23.10.1988
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LT
EE
LT
GE
AR
LT
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| 28.02.1988 | SU AZ |
Mass rioting hits Azerbaijan |
| 03.1998 | SU | NATO summit issues a communique setting "as a high priority the elimination of the capability for launching surprise attack." |
| 02.03.1998 | SU | Troops are send into Nagorno-Karabakh. |
| 23.03.1998 | AR | Kremlin cracks down on unrest in Armenia. |
| 14.04.1988 | SU | Soviet Union signs the Geneva Accords and promises to have half its soldiers out of Afghanistan by 15.08.1988, the remainder departing before 15.02.1989. |
| 03.06.1988 | SU LT |
Representatives of the intelligentsia found the Lithuanian Reform Movement "Saj_dis", advocating "openness, democracy and sovereignty." |
| 23.08.1988 | SU LT |
250 000 gather in Vilnius for the first ever commemorations of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, 1939, which sealed the Baltic states' incorporation into the Soviet Union. Mass demonstrations throughout the Baltic for independence. |
| 16- 18.09.1988 |
SU LT |
15 000 protesters join hands around the Ignalia nuclear power station, asking for a halt in construction of a third Chernobyl-style reactor. |
| Autum 1988 |
SU |
: People's Front - reformist Communists and National language groups in the Baltic. |
| 22.09.1988 | SU AR |
In Yerevan, Armenia, ?Interior Ministry troops smash tanks into rioters. |
| 07.10.1988 | SU LT |
In an effort to reduce tension, Lithuanian authorities organise a ceremony raising the old Lithuanian tricolour flag on Gediminas Castle. More than 100 000 people dance and sing in the streets of Vilnius. The President of the Supreme Council decides to make Lithuanian the official state language. |
| 19.10.1988 | SU LT |
Algirdas Brazauskas, reform minded, replaces Rimgaudas Songaila the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania. |
| 22- 23.10.1988 |
SU LT |
Saj_dis holds its Constituent Congress in Vilnius Sports Hall. |
| 23.10.1988 | SU LT |
20 000 attend a dawn service held in front of Vilnius Cathedral by Cardinal Sladkevi_ius. |
| 11.1988 | AZ | Unrest in Azerbaijan. |
| EE | Estonian Supreme Soviet declares "Estonian State Sovereignty", reserving the right to not apply particular Soviet laws on its territory. | |
| 16.11.1988 | SU EE |
Estonia rejects the USSR constitutional reforms. |
| 20.11.1988 | SU LT |
Sajudis Council (Seimas) adopts a declaration of "moral independence." |
| 23.11.1988 | SU GE |
In Georgia, between 30 000 and 200 000 demonstrate, demanding greater freedom. |
| 01.12.1988 | SU | Constitutional reform in the Soviet Union. |
| 07.12.1988 | SU AR |
Armenian earthquake kills 25 000. |
| SU | Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, resigns over disagreement around Gorbachev's planned speech on 08.12 to the UN. | |
| 08.12.1988 | SU | Gorbachev addresses the United Nations General Assembly, spelling out arms control proposals and a plan to cut unilaterally the Soviet armed forces by 500 000 troops. In the WTO allies facing NATO he proposes withdrawing 5 000 tanks, and that special airborne and bridging units key to offensive war plans would also go. The proposed cuts in armour and artillery amount to approximately 25% of the WTO front line forces. |
| 24.12.1988 | SU LT |
Christmas Eve is celebrated openly in Lithuania, for the first time since the Second World War. |
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