Soviet Union dissolved, replaced by the CIS
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- The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy And Its Geostrategic whole source · open book
In the course of two short weeks in December 1991, the Soviet Union was first defiantly declared as dissolved by the heads of its Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian republics, then formally replaced by a vaguer entity—called the Commonwealth of Independent States
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