Since the USSR's collapse, Russia faced many problems that free market proponents in 1992 did not expect.

The collapse of Russia induced a chain reaction of disintegration among the Finns starting from the government, military power and economy, and spreading downwards to all fields of the society such as local administration and workplaces, and finally to the level of individual citizens as changes and questions of freedom, responsibility and morality.

The economic collapse of Russia and the political power struggle of the Finnish state during 1917 were among the key factors that brought sovereignty to the fore in Finland.

The Germans attacked Russia on 18 February ; the offensive led to a rapid collapse and retreat of the Russian troops and to signature of the first Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by the Bolsheviks on 3 March 1918.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked on a series of reforms intending to deliver better health care by compulsory medical insurance with privately owned providers in addition to the state run institutions.

With the collapse of Russia, the position of the Tripartite Powers in the world will be so gigantic that the question of the collapse of England, that is, the absolute annihilation of the British Isles, will only be a question of time.

Lenin, who had earlier hoped for a speedy Soviet revolution in Germany and other parts of Europe, quickly decided that the imperial government of Germany was still firmly in control and that, without a strong Russian military, an armed conflict with Germany would lead to a collapse of the Soviet government in Russia.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the establishment of seven new sovereign states in Poland's immediate neighborhood ( Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia ), of which Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia ( through the Kaliningrad Oblast ) border Poland.

Since gaining its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, Russia has faced serious challenges in its efforts to forge a political system to follow nearly seventy-five years of Soviet rule.

After the collapse of the USSR, Khasbulatov consolidated his control over the Russian parliament and became the second most powerful man in Russia after Yeltsin himself.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, South Korea and Russia established diplomatic ties in 1991.

The war's end triggered the abdication of aging monarchies and the collapse of the last modern empires of Russia, Germany, the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary, with the latter splintered into Austria, Hungary, southern Poland ( who acquired most of their land in a war with Soviet Russia ), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the unification of Romania with Transylvania and Moldavia.

Russia also had a similar fate, since World War I led to a collapse in morale as well as to economic chaos.

Within months of the collapse of the Third Coalition, the Fourth Coalition ( 1806 – 07 ) against France was formed by Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

In October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical market-oriented reform along the lines of Poland's " big bang ", also known as " shock therapy ".

These obstacles may have left Russia on a far worse footing than other former Communist-led states to Russia's west that were also going through dual economic and political transitions, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which have fared better since the collapse of the Eastern bloc between 1989 and 1991.

Following the economic collapse of the early 1990s, Russia suffered from a sharp increase in the rates of poverty and economic inequality.

Especially Russia is believed to house thousands of orphan sources, which were lost following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In his speech, Bakunin called for an alliance between the Polish and Russian peoples against the Emperor, and looked forward to " the definitive collapse of despotism in Russia.

Despite the strategic predicament of the German Army, it had managed to prevent a collapse of its defenses and had survived the battle and withstood the pressure of the Russia and whilst conducting an invasion of Romania.

Thus, the " Western Civilization ", comprising all the nations that have existed in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, was treated as a whole, and distinguished from both the " Orthodox " civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman civilization that preceded it.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

The collapse of the Russian Empire following the February and October Revolutions of 1917 spurred the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the resultant power vacuum led to bitter conflict between the left-leaning labor movement, led by the Social Democrats, and more conservative non-socialists.

The main factors behind the Finnish Civil War were World War I, the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

The decision to use two flags has been a constant battleground between the two sides and led the coalition government to collapse in February 2011.

* February 9 – Song Dynasty Chinese and Mongolian armies occupy the Jurchen capital at Caizhou, marking the collapse of the Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ).

Meanwhile, Catherine Grey's sister, Lady Jane, and her father, the Duke of Suffolk, had been executed in February 1554 after the collapse of Wyatt's Rebellion.

Other notable early international broadcasters included Vatican Radio ( February 12, 1931 ), Radio Moscow, the official service of the Soviet Union which began broadcasting on long-wave in 1923 ( this has since been renamed the Voice of Russia, following the collapse of the Soviet Union ).

After the February Revolution of 1917 and the collapse of the tsarist regime, Roerich, a political moderate who placed spiritual values and Russia's cultural heritage above ideology and party politics, played an active part in artistic politics.

The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 caused the collapse of Russian political and military power in Finland.

After the collapse of the Autocracy ( see Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia ), he developed close relations with the liberal Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky that formed after the February Revolution.

After the collapse of the Napoleon's empire, he became Military Governor of Hanover 4 November 1813 – 24 October 1816, then Governor General of Hanover 24 October 1816 – 20 June 1837 ( viceroy from 22 February 1831 ).

The Theses were issued 4 April 1917, just over a month after the February Revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the collapse of Imperial Russia, and the establishment of the liberal Provisional Government under Georgy Lvov and later Alexander Kerensky.

With the collapse of New York City OTB in December 2010, Yonkers ' live races are broadcasted on the NYRA Network starting February 2011.

Just after the collapse of the South Sea Bubble, for which he was partly responsible but from which he did not profit, the earl was defending his government with customary vigour and panache in House of Lords on 4 February 1721 when he was taken ill with a violent headache.

The bridge would be the last New York City bridge to collapse if humans disappeared, taking at least a millennium to do so, according to the February 2005 issue of Discover magazine.

The final collapse of the provisional non-Islamist government came at 2 pm February 11 when the Supreme Military Council declared itself " neutral in the current political disputes … in order to prevent further disorder and bloodshed.

KKE is currently trying to mold a loose and rather disorganised international communist movement along a purely Marxist-Leninist line ; since its 18th Congress ( February 2009 ) KKE has opened up a discussion within the ranks and more broadly within the Greek left-leaning community on the future evolution of communism in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis on examining the causes of the collapse of the Socialist system in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.

But the civil war, conscription into the army, the collapse of the economy, and the curtailment of civil liberties in the mid-1980s all combined to cause the defeat of the FSLN government in February 1990 elections.

After the collapse of the Waffle in late 1974, the group organized itself as the Independent Socialists in February 1975.

In February 2009 the UK business was forced into receivership following the collapse of the parent MHS Electronics business in France.

After the February Revolution of 1917 and collapse of the Tsarist administration in the Caucasus, most power was held by the Special Transcaucasian Committee ( Ozakom, short for Osobyi Zakavkazskii Komitet ) of the Provisional Government.