anatoly chernyaev entered a diary, starting from the first days of perestroika, the faster events developed, the less illusions about the future. on november 14, 1991, he wrote down the union treaty, which will not be on the agenda in novaya ogoreva, nevertheless, that day the meeting participants agreed to the creation of a confederation on november 15, the izvestia newspaper came out with the headline get used to the words union of sovereign states. among the participants in the new ogaryov negotiations was no longer the chairman of the supreme council of ukraine leonid kravchuk on december 1, a referendum of independence was held in ukraine. and the presidential elections, in which kravchuk won, the viability of the ussr, under the chairmanship of gorbachev, was in great doubt. russian president boris yeltsin began to conduct secret consultations with the leaders of ukraine and belarus, leonid kravchuk and stanislav shushkevich on december 7, 1991, three politicians gathered at the viskulia residence in belovezhskaya pushcha. the official pretext for the meeting was the issue of russian