There were 15 states in the former USSR
There were 11 time zones in the former USSR.
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The USSR had a command economy, Russia today has a free market economy.
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Russian Federation
Eurasia
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.
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the First President of USSR.
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President Kenneth Kaunda was the first and former president.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the President of the USSR who encouraged the policy of Glasnost.