Belavezha Accords Belavezha Accords The Belavezha Accords (, , ) is the agreement that declared the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as effectively ceasing to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place as an successor entity. It was signed at the state dacha near Viskuli in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on December 8, 1991, by the leaders of three of the four republics-signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR — Russian President Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy Prime Minister of RSFSR/Russian Federation Gennady Burbulis, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitold Fokin, Belarusian
Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation The Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (), abbreviated as GUSP () is a federal executive agency that, within the scope of its competence, performs functions to ensure the fulfillment of the authority of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of mobilization training and mobilization in the Russian Federation in accordance with the Federal Law "On Mobilization Preparation and Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Originally established on January 6, 1977, as the Fifth Department of the Department of Affairs