The country was then still a republic of the Soviet Union.

He had them brought in from former republics of the Soviet Union.

Among all the union republics, Georgia had the highest number of residents with high or special secondary education.

The program reached all 15 republics of the former Soviet Union.

During the 1980s, legislative gridlock developed between the Soviet government and its union republics.

This is also the pattern in the republics of the former Soviet Union.

On a second level were the languages of the other 14 Union Republics.

He said that legally the republics of the Soviet Union are states.

The group remains active today (2010) in the former republics of the Soviet Union.

A nation could only be considered "fully-fledged" if it possessed a state system in the form of a union republic.