Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in 1997 the United States and four former Soviet republics agreed to succeed to the treaty.

During the Polish Soviet War, Lithuania signed the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union that laid out Lithuania's frontiers.

In recent decades the most rapid expansions in membership have been within Eastern Europe (especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union) and India.

August 21 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

August 24 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.

August 27 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.

August 30 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.

Cliburn returned to the former Soviet Union on several occasions.

In the Soviet Union, he became leader of the Comintern.

Development of GLONASS began in the Soviet Union in 1976.

In the North, Latvia, Finland and Estonia were assigned to the Soviet sphere.

The Soviets mounted a public relations campaign against the policy change.

Momand was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on September 7, 1988.

Such laws were common in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.

In the summer of 1941, the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of the Allies.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Volhynia has been an integral part of Ukraine.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union () was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1967 Iraq and the Soviet Union signed the Iraq Soviet Protocol which committed the Soviet Union to give technical and financial aid to the company.

The Soviet occupation in 1940 ended the activities of the Air Force.

Germany broke the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact in June 1941 by invading the Soviet Union.

Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.

In 1918, it was decreed that all nationalities in the Soviet Union had the right to education in their own language.

Presidents of the post Soviet Central Asian countries like to be regarded as strong, paternalistic leaders.

The numbers of Soviet partisans quickly caught up and were very similar to that of the Polish resistance.

Bilateral Relations Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Tunisia established July 11, 1956.

With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union.

Following the Soviet example, Czechoslovakia began emphasizing the rapid development of heavy industry.

After her pioneering flight, she was honoured as a Hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of Lenin.

During the tumultuous decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union some of them gained a large measure of independence.

When the USSR collapsed, the government investment was 70 of the GDP.

Secondary content may also include Russian language content from the former Soviet Union and around the world.

1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Soviet Union proclaimed its zone of occupation in Germany the German Democratic Republic that October.

This led to a diverse inventory of Soviet, British, Swedish, French and Finnish aircraft.

The first Presidential election in Russia was held in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The first Presidential election in Ukraine was held in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1939 Winter War The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

After that point, the numbers of Soviet partisans and Yugoslav partisans begun growing rapidly.

April 9 The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

His family returned to Latvia after the Soviet Union occupied and annexed it in 1940.

The meeting, requested by the Soviet Union and United States, adopted the resolution unanimously.

Two weeks after the German invasion, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, coordinating with German forces.

Following the signing of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 and the subsequent invasion and division of Polish territories between the Reich and the USSR, the Polish part of Volhynia was occupied by the Soviet Union.

Post Soviet Russia A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era , Columbia University Press, 2002, 394 pages.

As a diplomat, he worked in Spain, France, Soviet Union, United States, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Morocco.