As the Abkhaz people gather in their capital, Sukhumi, they are exhibiting popular support for an independence movement that took root decades ago when the region was an autonomous republic within ...

During the Soviet era the Abkhaz polity predominantly existed as an “autonomous republic” within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1931-1992 ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union was a true administrative monster that held together as many as 173 different territorial entities: 15 above-mentioned SSRs, 20 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics ...

Eighty-one-year-old Nikolai Khasig was born in Sukhumi in 1932. It was just one year after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin stripped Abkhazia of its short-lived status as a full-fledged republic of ...

PRAGUE, September 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The problem of Transdniester came into being in 1924, when the then-Soviet authorities created the so-called Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ...

It was made part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936, but retained its self-determination, becoming the only autonomous republic in Soviet Central Asia.

Rsfsr: Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and Cambodia: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture and Thailand: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts October 1958 ...

1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev allows Chechens back to the Caucasus, restores the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechnya declares ...

MOSCOW — Move over, Maryland, U.S.A.Make room for Maryland, Russia.Yesterday, in the spirit of the times, the Marisky Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic up and declared its sovereignty, taking ...

1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev allows Chechens back to the Caucasus, restores the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechnya declares ...