News Feature, 1st prize
Andrei Soloviev
ITAR-TASS
ITAR-TASS
01 January, 1989
A mass rally. As nationalists all over the Soviet Union clamoured for autonomy, ethnic strife hit many of the outlying republics where some 140 million non-Russians live.
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