an extraordinary day in russian history twenty years ago a secret meeting took place between boris yeltsin leo need crash took and stanislav just gave each day with the heads of the former soviet republics of russia ukraine and belarus in the final moments of the soviet empire the three announced states on the world map known as the u.s.'s had ceased to exist. the dense bill of asia forrest webelos borders poland in soviet times people would come here and excursions from all over the us as. a bell a recent t.v. journalist was the only one lucky enough to shoot the moment of signing the documents that entered history as the belle of asia accords we were fairly we were left on the military airfield so i approached a k.g.b. officer and said what do we do brit look we're missing such an important meeting or like. i said it's ok given i'll take you for. several minutes later but i didn't get son and he was being driven to a secret place named to the school in the central part of the belle of asia forest it was in this place at the head will be a rose stone is left shushkevich and decided to invite