republics declared six refusal to join involves both soft new federation Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics , then the Union of Sovereign States declaring independence (Lithuania, Latvia , Estonia , Armenia and Georgia ), and the transition her (Moldova )
2. Then, in the landslide collapse of the USSR after the August putsch putsch Soviet authorities had recognized the independence of the three Baltic republics declared independence , and almost all of the remaining Soviet republics .
3. However, after the referendum on the independence of the three republics of Ukraine - founders of the USSR ( the Russian Federation , Ukraine, Belarus ) signed by the Bialowieza agreement on its dissolution , which are then approved by all twelve republics , and instead SSG created Commonwealth of Independent States as an international ( intergovernmental ) organization .
4.Thus at the time of dissolution of the USSR 8-12 December 1991 of all the Union republics is not only three declared independence , and are not held referendums on independence ( the Russian Federation , Belarus, Kazakhstan , the latter did so later).
Disintegration