Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...

Georgia is strategically important to the United ... most positive event to have occurred in the countries of the former Soviet Union in more than a decade, Georgia is entering an unstable period ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders ...