Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States or CIS had all been formerly members of the USSR and the annexed countries. These annexed countries were Hungary, East Germany, Poland, or Lithuania.
Belarus was formerly part of the USSR.
The name of the western Asian country (formerly part of the USSR) is Kazakhstan.
As the USSR no longer exists as a sovereign state all countries are free from it.
The countries which had been seized by the USSR are called the Eastern Bloc.
The USSR did not break up and become Russia again. Thinking Russia and the USSR were the same, is a common mistake. Russia was just part of the USSR, along with many other countries. Russia was the largest of the countries that were part of the USSR. In 1991, the USSR broke up and these countries, including Russia, all became independent.
The USSR.
Yes. Belarus was formerly one of the states in the USSR. It gained its independence in 1991.
Tbilisi is the capital and largest city of Georgia (the country), which was formerly part of the USSR.
Eastern European countries became communist, which was a political ideology modernized by the USSR.
USSR
The Soviet Union (the USSR) was dissolved in 1991.