The Belavezha accords

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1. Story
2. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, meeting at a hunting lodge in the Belavezha forest, declared that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist as a subject of international law and announced a Commonwealth of Independent States. Eight further republics joined the arrangement at Alma-Ata later in the month. Whether three republics had the legal authority to dissolve the union has been argued about ever since; what is not in doubt is that the central state no longer had the means to contradict them.
3. Knowledge
4. Mikhail Gorbachev
5. The Belavezha accords
6. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
7. Connections
8. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
9. Mikhail Gorbachev
10. The Belavezha accords
11. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
12. Warsaw Treaty Organization
13. Mikhail Gorbachev
14. Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
15. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
16. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
17. The Reykjavik summit
18. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
19. The Berlin Wall opens
20. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
21. The Belavezha accords
22. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
23. Evidence
24. Supports the formal date of dissolution and the fact that it was effected by a declaration of the upper chamber the day after Gorbachev's resignation. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted. The reference number 142-N is the number under which the declaration is commonly cited and is given here as an identifier rather than as a document verified in this session; a curator should confirm it before it is shown to readers.