The Soviet Union also collapsed without a fight. "Peaceful transfer of power." And the state was gone. Like now in Syria. But for Russia, nothing has ended; it will continue to be destroyed.
On December 8, 1991, in
Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich signed the Belovezh Accords, which declared that "the USSR as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality ceases to exist."
The 70-year history of the USSR was over.