Related Clues:
- Pre-'91 republics
- Ukr. et al., once
- Bygone polit. entities
- Onetime CIA rival
- Union mems. until 1991
- Old union members: Abbr.
- Some Eur. nations, not long ago
- Regions on 1980s maps: abbr.
- Old pol. divisions
- Cold War adversary
- Former grp. of 15
- Cold War spy org.
- Org. in which Putin was once an officer
- Georgia and Latvia, prev.
- Former Soviet spy agcy.