when the republics proclaimed their independence and the Soviet president’s powers were seriously weakened, I remained certain that the union could be preserved. I proposed a Union of Sovereign ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...

The Cold War officially ended when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved as a sovereign state in 1991.

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The USSR republics’ right for secession was "the most dangerous time bomb" under the statehood of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in the article ...

Just over a week ago, at an international hockey tournament in Moscow, the Russian national team invaded the ice wearing the uniform of the Soviet ... of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...

Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR), another breakaway country in the southwest part of Azerbaijan, began its secession during the dying years of the Soviet Union ... fixtures of a sovereign state ...