The Russian Orthodox Church breaks off relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This is the response of the Moscow Patriarchate to the imminent granting of autocephaly to Ukraine.
On February 7 2018, at least 200 citizens of the Russian Federation were killed in Syria as a result of a clash with American troops. These citizens were mercenaries of a military organization known as the Wagner PMC.
In 6 months, Brezhnev will die and the Central Committee of the CPSU will be headed by Yuri Andropov, who will die of illness a year later and will hand over the reins of power to Konstantin Chernenko.
By the beginning of the 90s, the shortage of goods, including food, was huge. However, the store shelves were not supposed to remain empty, and then the sellers displayed the same goods that were in stock in the windows.