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 ...

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 ...

The Russian foreign minister pointed out that the West’s move to support the Kiev coup and reproach Moscow for its alleged annexation of Crimea was deplorable SUDAK /Crimea/, August 12.