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On December 8, 1991, the signing of the Belovezha Accords declared that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had effectively ceased- establishing 12 independent states, and the Baltic republics had seceded earlier. Since that moment, in almost 33 years, has there been a case when any of the independent states joined the Russian Federation or the leadership of those states expressed such a desire? There is the Union State of Russia and Belarus, but Belarus is an entirely independent state. Wearing the mask of a "kolkhoznik," Lukashenko…