Also on 21 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to make the results of the March 17 referendum on the future of the Soviet Union binding on all 15 Union republics.
It claims that Serbia's political elite had seen Yugoslavia as an extended Serbia and this is why Yugoslavia as a union of equal republics was destined to fail.
The sovereign republics parties to the Treaty, expressing the peoples' will to renew their union...have resolved to build their relations on new principles within a Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics.
And the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which once threatened western Europe with annihilation now has an archaic and faintly comical ring to it.
The 1922 Treaty on the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be deemed to have lapsed as of the same date for the republics which have signed it.
This Memorandum concludes that, following the extinction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 did not become a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation.
It has been represented by Gorbachev as a charter for a new Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, one which would strip Moscow center of its dominant position and vest new autonomy in the governments of fifteen republics.
In fact, the only thing that separated the two main branches of 20th-century totalitarianism was that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born of an international movement while the National Socialist German Workers Party was explicitly nationalist.
Comment: The ostensibly voluntary nature of the republics' membership in the Union is belied by Gorbachev's insistence that the republics accept the Treaty, by the lack of any permissible alternative to adoption of the Treaty and by Gorbachev's use of enhanced presidential powers to suppress popular demonstrations against the Treaty in the republics.
Comment: This provision for expulsion of republics from the Union is doubly ironic in view of the fact that the Treaty omits any provision for secession, a right which was nominally recognized from the very beginning of the USSR and "guaranteed" under all previous Soviet constitutions.
After the 14 non-Russian republics of the old Soviet Union went their ways, Russia was left with more than a score of autonomous ethnically named regions and republics.
Trade and credit agreements between the individual reformist republics of the Soviet Union and the United States.
Freedom Support Act, designed to assist former republics of the Soviet Union.
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Russia is threatening to pull out of the agreement if former republics of the Soviet Union are invited to join in the future.
It seems to me the wiser course to concentrate on aligning the U.S. and Japanese interests with the true democratic forces and reformist republics in the Soviet Union, not the increasingly repressive central authorities.
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The Council of the Federation is constituted under the USSR president's leadership and comprises the USSR vice president and the presidents...of the republics, for the purpose of laying down the main avenues of the Union's domestic and foreign policy and coordination the republics' actions.
Consider what Mr. Gorbachev, reformer without a cause, has done in response to this week's swift but peaceable replacement of the Soviet Union with a commonwealth of the core republics.
The simple truth of the matter is that the United States is today in a very strong position to work out far more attractive and constructive trade agreements with the emerging, reformist independent republics of the former Soviet Union.
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In short, the republics and localities in the Soviet Union view forced delivery to Moscow as tantamount to confiscation of their own precious resources.
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The five Central Asia republics were part of the Soviet Union.
The Bush Administration is expressing growing unhappiness over the insistence of the Baltic republics and others within the Soviet Union bent on obtaining real political freedoms and independence.
The souring of relations with Russia helped push Mr Yanukovich towards the EU. Yet his core supporters in Ukraine's east and south prefer union with Russia and other ex-Soviet republics.
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Even such intensive advisory services by these and other Western institutions, however, should be carefully targeted to the reformist republics and localities of the Soviet Union not the increasingly repressive Kremlin.
When the Baltic Assembly convened in May 1989, committees of economists, scientists, engineers, and technical experts from the three Baltic states organized to begin to ascertain the true economic linkages among the three republics and bilaterally with the Soviet Union.
The powers of the Union cannot be changed without the consent of all republics.
The president is elected by USSR citizens by a majority of votes in the Union as a whole and in the majority of republics.
The emergence of independent Central Asian republics after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and then the toppling of Arab dictators in 2011 encouraged exiles to dream.
Comment: In contrast to the assertion of autonomous power contained in each of the declarations of independence or sovereignty adopted by every Soviet republic, Gorbachev's draft of the All-Union Treaty would devolve remarkably little power to the republics.
It also calls upon him to match this action with strong words at the summit: There will be real costs to the Soviet Union if Moscow engages in repression against its restive republics, ethnic minorities, workers, journalists and others.
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The republics agreed to discuss division of the Soviet Union's foreign debt and gold, diamond and hard currency reserves at their next meeting, in three months.
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