Witness History: Witness Archive 2016

In 1966, the collected thoughts of China's communist leader became an unexpected best-seller around the world. A compend... Read more

In November 1994, the Russian conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed in front of an art gallery in central Moscow, naked, pr... Read more

After the collapse of the USSR, Vogue Magazine launched in Russia in 1998. But it was a difficult beginning for the glos... Read more

One of the most potentially dangerous legacies of the collapse of the Soviet Union was its huge nuclear arsenal and nucl... Read more

After the breakup of the Soviet Union in December 1991, freedom came at a price for some of the newly independent Soviet... Read more

In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia - signed a treaty dissolving the... Read more

The biggest audience in TV history watch NASA's Apollo 8 mission beam back the first pictures from an orbit around the m... Read more

On December 22nd 1989, the great Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett died. Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godo... Read more

A Turkish cargo ship ran aground on a tiny rocky island in the Aegean Sea in December 1995. But a dispute between Turkey... Read more

The experimental film-maker made his first full-length film in 1976, it was called Sebastiane - and it was in Latin. It... Read more