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History of post-Soviet Russia - tScholars.com |
 | | With the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation became an independent country. |
| | Russia was the largest of the fifteen republics that made up the Soviet Union, accounting for over 60 percent of the GDP and over half of the Soviet population. |
| | Thus, Russia was widely accepted as the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic affairs and it assumed the USSR's permanent membership and veto in the UN Security Council; see Russia's membership in the United Nations. |
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