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Soviet Union, although it was boycotted by authorities in six of the fifteen Soviet republics. The referendum asked whether to approve a new Union Treaty between...

The New Union Treaty (Russian: Новый союзный договор, romanized: Novyy soyuznyy dogovor) was a draft treaty that would have replaced the 1922 Treaty on...

government forces and ethnic Georgian militias on one side and the forces of South Ossetian separatists and Russia on the other. The war ended with a Dagomys Agreement...

encouraging South Ossetian separatism in order to force Georgia not to leave the Soviet Union. Georgia declared its independence in April 1991. As a result...

by Ossetians, an ethnic group also dominant in North Ossetia, which is part of Russia. South Ossetia separated itself from Georgia following the 1991–1992...

Russia–South Ossetia relations (Russian: Российско-южноосетинские отношения, Ossetian: Хъуыд Уӕрӕсе-Хуссар Ирыстон) refers to the bilateral relationship...

alphabets. Abkhaz was one of the few exceptions; along with Ossetian in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast (also of the Georgian SSR), it adopted a Georgian...

states and fearful of the New Union Treaty, which was on the verge of being signed by the Soviet Union (USSR). The treaty was to decentralize much of...

USSR-wide referendum, on 31 March 1991, an independence referendum was held on the matter of Georgian independence. Boycotted by the South Ossetian and Abkhaz...

administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics...

states with limited recognition 2006 South Ossetian independence referendum Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia Abkhazia portal It is unclear...

Sovereignty from the Soviet Union with the ongoing discussion for the New Union Treaty. Half a year later a January 1991 referendum in the Crimean Oblast overwhelmingly...

Soviet Union passes by wide margins in both republics. The next test is a countrywide referendum on Gorbachev's plan". Los Angeles Times. 1991-03-04....

limitation on executive powers, a referendum on the existence of the President's position, the restoration of South Ossetian autonomy, a return of Meskhetian...

Later that year South Ossetian president Leonid Tibilov said he was preparing a referendum to join Russia. However, such a referendum never took place...

pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics. On 17 March 1991, an all-Russian referendum created the post of...

January 1991. A military conflict broke out between Georgia and South Ossetian separatists in January 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, canceled...

independence referendum with a majority voting for independence from the Soviet Union but is boycotted by most Abkhazians and South Ossetians. The Croatian...

congratulated his South Ossetian counterpart Murat Jioev. South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoity was visiting Moscow. Kokoity signed new treaties with Russia...

In 1991, Georgia refused to take part in referendum to preserve the Soviet Union as a renewed federation, opting to hold an independence referendum, which...