Possible Clues:

• Post-Cold War inits
• Grafton's '-- for Corpse'
• Successor org. to the USSR
• Prefix for 'normative'
• USSR follower
• Trans- opposite
• Successor org. to the U.S.S.R.
• Alliance that includes Ukr.
• USSR's successor
• Sue Grafton's '-- for Corpse'