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They were independent republics.
Ukraine was in USSR not in Russia!!! Russia was not independet until the break-up of USSR! that is when all the 15 republics became independent states, including UKRAINE and RUSSIA!
The immediate actions were the declarations of independence of almost all of the former soviet republics, all republics that wanted to stay with russia were annexed into russia and those that wanted independence instead became independent countries.
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There is no Soviet Union since it's disintegrated in 1991. 15 republics of former Soviet Union are now independent countries. The biggest of those republics is Russia.
Russia was by far the largest of the republics.
Russia has not been divided. The Soviet Union (1922-1991) has 15 Soviet republics. After Soviet Union destroy all 15 republics became independent Countries: Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Krgizstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan.
The commonwealth consists of Russia and other republics of the former USSR. There is no president, but there is an Executive Secretary, who since 2007 and as of late 2010 was Sergei Lebedev of Russia.
Kyrgyzstan was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, a.k.a. the Soviet Union), but it has been independent since 1991.
Russia was never broken into states. You may be asking when the Soviet Union (familiarly referred to as "Russia") broke up into 15 independent republics. The breakup started in the spring of 1990 and competed by fall of 1991.
None. The USSR consisted of 15 Republics including Russia. At the breakup of the USSR, each of the Republics eventually became an independent country - * Armenia * Azerbaijan * Belorussia * Estonia * Georgia (Gruziya) * Kazakhstan * Kirghizstan * Latvia * Lithuania * Moldavia * Russia * Tadzhikistan * Turkmenistan * Ukraine * Uzbekistan Each of the former Soviet Republics is now self-determining although Russia still acts as the diplomatic and consular representative for several of the Central Asian countries.
The largest religious group in Russia and the western former Soviet republics are Orthodox Christians.