Boris Yeltsin addresses a massive Moscow crowd during the coup attempt in August 1991. Credit: Peter Turnley / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images Yeltsin was an amateur politician, but he wasn't yet ...

Recall that during the coup 59 years ago ... Yakubu Gowon freed him from Calabar prison in Cross River state on August 2, 1966. He was thereafter flown to Lagos state, where—according to ...

The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, ...

And so he set in motion a plan that was to end in the death of 240 people in a bloody standoff on August 1, 1982, which is recorded as Kenya’s second failed coup attempt. As early as May 1982 ...

MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...

which addressed societal morals and values. The 1982 Kenyan coup occurred on August 1, when a faction of the Kenya Air Force, led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, attempted to overthrow then ...

August 8. /TASS/. Nearly 80% of Nigeriens support the actions of the coup leaders, while 73% of respondents think they should stay in power for a longer period of time, the Economist reported ...