 Panguva iyo Thomas Sankara akadzingwa uye akaurayiwa musi wa 15 Gumiguru 1987 mukubvuta mauto kwakarongedzwa naBlaise Compaoré, hurumende yaMikhail Gorbachev yakanga yakabatikana zvikuru ne demokratizatsiya, perestroika uye glasnost kuti ienderere mberi chero ipi zvayo yekubatana kwayo kukuru muBurkina Faso neAfrica yose. Apo Shanduko dza 1989 dzakatanga, chikwereti chehurumende yeBurkinabé kuUSSR chakasvika kumamirioni 4,3 rubles. Burkina Faso yakaziva Russian Federation senyika yakatsiva USSR mushure mekuparadzwa kwayomuna 1991. Mamishinari ekare eSoviet akavharwa mumakore ekuma1990 nekuda kwemari. 