Commonwealth of Independent States.
No. Russia was a member of the Soviet Union until 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Russia and its neighbors.
The Russian Federation's government was formed 1991.
Russia was known as the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 with the signing of the Belavezha Accord.
The Soviet Union (or Russia)
Russia became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USSR, was formed in 1922. when Russia merged with the Republic of Ukraine.
1991
In 1991, Russia was a part of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Soviet Union covered 8,649,538 square miles. The Soviet Union broke apart in 1992. Modern Russia is its successor state and covers 6,592,800 square miles.
The "Soviet Union" did not just change its name to Russia. The Soviet Union had been a union of several different republics. It had first been formed by the union of four republics, Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus Federation. Others were later added. In 1991, the Soviet Union broke apart into 15 separate countries, one of them being Russia. Russia then took back its old name.
The Soviet Union was a socialist state that existed from 1922 to 1991, consisting of various republics including Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia, established in 1917, was one of the republics within the Soviet Union and eventually became the Russian Federation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Triple Entente