IN CONTEXT
Conflicts since the collapse of the USSR
November 9, 1989 The Berlin Wall collapses, leading to the reunification of Germany.
1989 Romania overthrows the ruthless regime of Nicolae Ceauşsescu.
1990 In Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, newly formed center-right parties take power.
1992–95 The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina results in the death of some 100,000 people.
1998–99 War breaks out in Kosovo between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs. NATO troops intervene.
2014 Fighting erupts between Russians and Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine.
The Siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia, was one of the most appalling tragedies in Yugoslavia’s civil war ...
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