Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic

context: The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, tr. Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika  listen (help·info)) commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply as Russia, was a sovereign state in 1917–22, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990–91. The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. To the west it bordered Finland, Norway and Poland; and to the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea whilst bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Black sea and Caspian Sea to the south. Within the USSR, it bordered the Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the west. To the south it bordered the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSRs.
qas: answers: the Pacific Ocean
question: Which ocean is along eastern Russia?

answers: the Soviet Union
question: Which union did Russia belong to after 1922?

answers: 91
question: When did the RSFSR cease to be a part of the Soviet Union?

answers: sixteen
question: How many autonomous republics make up the RSFSR?

answers: forty
question: The RSFSR contains how many oblasts?

answers: five
question: How many autonomous oblasts were part of the RSFSR?

answers: six
question: How many krais were present in the RSFSR?

context: Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks established the Soviet state on 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown during the October Revolution. Initially, the state did not have an official name and wasn't recognized by neighboring countries for five months. Meanwhile, anti-Bolsheviks coined the mocking label "Sovdepia" for the nascent state of the "Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies".
qas: answers: the Bolsheviks
question: Which group originally created the Soviet state?

answers: Vladimir Lenin
question: Who led the group which created the Soviet state?

answers: the Russian Provisional Government
question: Which government was overthrown during the October Revolution?

answers: five months
question: How long did the new Russian Soviet state go unrecognized by other countries?

answers: Sovdepia
question: What name did people opposed to the Bolsheviks use for the Soviet state?

answers: Vladimir Lenin
question: Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917?

answers: Russian Provisional Government
question: What body was overthrown by the October Revolution?

answers: five months
question: For how long did the Soviet Union go unrecognized?

answers: Sovdepia
question: What derisive label was given to the USSR by the enemies of the Bolsheviks?

context: On December 30, 1922, with the creation of the Soviet Union, Russia became one of six republics within the federation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The final Soviet name for the republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was adopted in the Soviet Constitution of 1936. By that time, Soviet Russia had gained roughly the same borders of the old Tsardom of Russia before the Great Northern War of 1700.
qas: answers: December 30, 1922
question: When was the Soviet Union created?

answers: six
question: How many republics were in the USSR?

answers: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
question: What name for Russia was listed in the Soviet Constitution?

answers: 1936
question: When did the Soviet Union include the final Russian name for its republic in the Constitution?

answers: the Great Northern War
question: In which war was Russia involved in 1700?

answers: December 30, 1922
question: On what date was the Soviet Union created?

answers: six
question: How many republics made up the USSR by the end of 1922?

answers: 1936
question: In what year was the name Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted?

answers: Soviet Constitution of 1936
question: What document renamed the country the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?

answers: 1700
question: In what year was the Great Northern War fought?

context: On December 25, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic was renamed the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day. This name and "Russia" were specified as the official state names in the April 21, 1992 amendment to the existing constitution and were retained as such in the 1993 Constitution of Russia.
qas: answers: December 25, 1991
question: When did the Soviet Union break up?

answers: the Russian Federation
question: Which name did Russia take after the fall of the Soviet Union?

answers: the Russian Federation
question: What is the current official name of Russia?

answers: April 21, 1992
question: When was the current name for Russia added to the Russian constitution?

answers: December 25, 1991
question: When was Russia renamed the Russian Federation?

answers: the collapse of the Soviet Union
question: What event led to Russia being renamed the Russian Federation?

answers: April 21, 1992
question: When was Russia made an official state name of the Russian Federation?

answers: 1993 Constitution of Russia
question: What 1993 document confirmed Russia as an official state name of the Russian Federation?

context: The international borders of the RSFSR touched Poland on the west; Norway and Finland on the northwest; and to its southeast were the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolian People's Republic, and the People's Republic of China. Within the Soviet Union, the RSFSR bordered the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs to its west and Azerbaijan, Georgian and Kazakh SSRs to the south.
qas: answers: Poland
question: Which country did the RSFSR border on the west?

answers: Norway and Finland
question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the northwest?

answers: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolian People's Republic, and the People's Republic of China
question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the southeast?

answers: Azerbaijan, Georgian and Kazakh SSRs
question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the south?

answers: the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs
question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the west?

answers: Poland
question: What country borders Russia on the west?

answers: Finland
question: Along with Norway, what country borders the RSFSR on the northwest?

answers: Georgian
question: In the USSR, what SSR did the RSFSR border along with the Kazakh SSR?

answers: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
question: Along with the Mongolian People's Republic and the People's Republic of China, what country did the RSFSR border to its southeast?

context: The Soviet regime first came to power on November 7, 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution. The state it governed, which did not have an official name, would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months.
qas: answers: November 7, 1917
question: When did the Soviet regime first become powerful?

answers: the Russian Provisional Government
question: Which government was in power before the Soviet regime?

answers: the October Revolution
question: Which revolution led to the Soviet regime's rise to power?

answers: five months
question: How long was the state of the Soviet regime unrecognized by other countries?

answers: the Russian Republic
question: What was the name of the republic the Russian Provisional Goverment ruled?

answers: November 7, 1917
question: When did the Soviet government assume power?

answers: the October Revolution
question: What event led to the assumption of power by the Soviet government?

answers: the Russian Provisional Government
question: What body governed Russia prior to the Soviet government?

answers: five
question: In months, for how long was the new Soviet state unrecognized?

context: On January 25, 1918, at the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the unrecognized state was renamed the Soviet Russian Republic. On March 3, 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, giving away much of the land of the former Russian Empire to Germany, in exchange for peace in World War I. On July 10, 1918, the Russian Constitution of 1918 renamed the country the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire had seceded, reducing the size of the country even more.
qas: answers: the Soviet Russian Republic
question: Which official name was Russia given at the start of 1918?

answers: Germany
question: To which country did Russia give land during World War I?

answers: the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
question: Which treaty did Russia sign in order to give land and gain peace during World War I?

answers: the Russian Civil War
question: What war resulted in Russia shrinking further during 1918?

answers: third
question: What numbered meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets occurred on January 25, 1918?

answers: the Soviet Russian Republic
question: On January 25, 1918, what was the official name given to the Soviet state?

answers: peace in World War I
question: What did Russia receive in return for signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

answers: July 10, 1918
question: On what date was the country renamed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?

answers: the Russian Civil War
question: During what 1918 conflict did states secede from Russia?

context: In 1943, Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved by Joseph Stalin, when the Karachays were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the Germans and territory was incorporated into the Georgian SSR.
qas: answers: Karachay Autonomous Oblast
question: Which oblast was broken up in 1943?

answers: Central Asia
question: Where were the Karachays sent after their oblast was broken up?

answers: the Georgian SSR
question: Which SSR received the land of the Karachays' oblast?

answers: Joseph Stalin
question: Who broke up the Karachays' oblast?

answers: Joseph Stalin
question: Who eliminated the Karachay Autonomous Oblast?

answers: 1943
question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast ended?

answers: Central Asia
question: To where were the Karachays exiled?

answers: alleged collaboration with the Germans
question: Why were the Karachays exiled?

answers: Georgian SSR
question: What republic was the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred to?

context: The RSFSR was established on November 7, 1917 (October Revolution) as a sovereign state. The first Constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922 the Russian SFSR signed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR.
qas: answers: November 7, 1917
question: On what date was the RSFSR established?

answers: October Revolution
question: What event led to the establishment of the RSFSR?

answers: 1918
question: In what year was the Constitution adopted?

answers: 1922
question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed in what year?

context: The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. It was, by 1961, the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1974, there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students. A network of territorially-organized public-health services provided health care. After 1985, the restructuring policies of the Gorbachev administration relatively liberalised the economy, which had become stagnant since the late 1970s, with the introduction of non-state owned enterprises such as cooperatives. The effects of market policies led to the failure of many enterprises and total instability by 1990.
qas: answers: two-thirds
question: How much of the USSR's electricity was produced in the RSFSR?

answers: the United States and Saudi Arabia
question: What two countries produced more petroleum than Russia in 1961?

answers: 23,941,000
question: How many students were in institutions of higher education in Russia in 1974?

answers: 475
question: How many institutions of higher education did Russia possess in 1974?

answers: 47
question: In how many languages were students in institutions of higher education being educated in 1974?

context: On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty. On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President. On December 8, 1991, heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belavezha Accords. The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states (i.e. denunciation of 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the CIS. On December 12, the agreement was ratified by the Russian Parliament, therefore Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia's independence from the USSR.
qas: answers: June 12, 1990
question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty adopted?

answers: Boris Yeltsin
question: Who became president on June 12, 1991?

answers: December 8, 1991
question: On what date were the Belavezha Accords signed?

answers: December 12
question: When did the Russian Parliament ratify the Belavezha Accords?

answers: 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR
question: What agreement did the Belavezha Accords supersede?

context: On December 25, 1991, the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation. On December 26, 1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the union republics). After dissolution of the USSR, Russia declared that it assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet government, including UN membership.
qas: answers: Russian Federation
question: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991?

answers: December 26, 1991
question: On what date was the USSR dissolved?

answers: Soviet of Nationalities
question: What body was responsible for the dissolution of the USSR?

answers: Soviet of the Union
question: What house of the Supreme Soviet was not functioning as of December 26, 1991?

answers: UN membership
question: What was one right of the Soviet government that the government of Russia assumed?

context: On January 25, 1918 the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets renamed the unrecognized state the Soviet Russian Republic. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on March 3, 1918, giving away much of the land of the former Russian Empire to Germany in exchange for peace during the rest of World War I. On July 10, 1918, the Russian Constitution of 1918 renamed the country the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire seceded, reducing the size of the country even more.
qas: answers: January 25, 1918
question: On what date was the state named the Soviet Russian Republic?

answers: All-Russian Congress of Soviets
question: What body renamed the state the Soviet Russian Republic?

answers: March 3, 1918
question: When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed?

answers: Germany
question: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceded land to what state?

answers: Russian Constitution of 1918
question: What document renamed the state the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?

context: Internationally, in 1920, the RSFSR was recognized as an independent state only by Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short-lived Irish Republic.
qas: answers: Treaty of Tartu
question: What treaty resulted in the recognition of the RSFSR by Latvia and other states?

answers: Irish Republic
question: Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state recognized the RSFSR in 1920?

context: For most of the Soviet Union's existence, it was commonly referred to as "Russia," even though technically "Russia" was only one republic within the larger union—albeit by far the largest, most powerful and most highly developed.
qas: answers: Russia
question: What was the common name of the Soviet Union?

answers: republic
question: Technically, what type of state was Russia?

answers: Russia
question: What was the largest republic in the Soviet Union?

context: Roughly 70% of the area in the RSFSR consisted of broad plains, with mountainous tundra regions mainly concentrated in the east. The area is rich in mineral resources, including petroleum, natural gas, and iron ore.
qas: answers: 70%
question: What percentage of the RSFSR was made up of plains?

answers: the east
question: In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly exist?

answers: natural gas
question: Along with petroleum and iron ore, what resource was abundant in the RSFSR?

context: On December 30, 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, by which Russia was united with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic into a single federal state, the Soviet Union. Later treaty was included in the 1924 Soviet Constitution,[clarification needed] adopted on January 31, 1924 by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
qas: answers: December 30, 1922
question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR passed?

answers: First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR
question: What body passed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?

answers: Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state joined Russia to form the Soviet Union?

answers: January 31, 1924
question: On what date was the 1924 Soviet Constitution adopted?

answers: the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR
question: What body adopted the 1924 Soviet Constitution?

context: Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933: Volga; Central Black Soil Region; North Caucasus; the Urals; the Crimea; part of Western Siberia; and the Kazak ASSR. With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on December 5, 1936, the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced. The Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR were transformed into the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics. The Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was transferred to the Uzbek SSR.
qas: answers: 1932–1933
question: During what span was there a famine in the Soviet Union?

answers: the 1936 Soviet Constitution
question: What document was ratified on December 5, 1936?

answers: the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics
question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR renamed per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?

answers: the Uzbek SSR
question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of?

answers: reduced
question: What effect did the 1936 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?

context: The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937, which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
qas: answers: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1937?

answers: the Russian Constitution of 1937
question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1937?

context: On March 3, 1944, on the orders of Stalin, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was disbanded and its population forcibly deported upon the accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism. The territory of the ASSR was divided between other administrative unit of Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR.
qas: answers: the Chechen-Ingush ASSR
question: What state was dissolved on March 3, 1944?

answers: Stalin
question: Who ordered the deportation of the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR?

answers: accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism
question: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR deported?

answers: Georgian SSR
question: Along with the RSFSR, what republic received territory from the former Chechen-Ingush ASSR?

context: On October 11, 1944, the Tuvan People's Republic joined the Russian SFSR as the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, in 1961 becoming an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
qas: answers: Tuvan Autonomous Oblast
question: What was the Tuvan People's Republic renamed when it joined the RSFSR?

answers: October 11, 1944
question: On what date did the Tuvan People's Republic join the Russian SFSR?

answers: an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
question: What did the former Tuvan People's Republic become in 1961?

context: After reconquering Estonia and Latvia in 1944, the Russian SFSR annexed their easternmost territories around Ivangorod and within the modern Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts in 1944-1945.
qas: answers: Latvia
question: Along with Estonia, what country was taken over by the Russian SFSR in 1944?

answers: Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts
question: What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1944?

answers: Ivangorod
question: Near what town did the RSFSR annex territory in 1944?

context: At the end of World War II Soviet troops occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, making them part of the RSFSR. The status of the southernmost Kurils remains in dispute with Japan.
qas: answers: Kuril Islands
question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were occupied by the Soviets after the Second World War?

answers: the RSFSR
question: What administrative division did Sakhalin Island become a part of?

answers: the southernmost Kurils
question: The ownership of what islands are disputed with Japan?

context: On April 17, 1946, the Kaliningrad Oblast — the northern portion of the former German province of East Prussia—was annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Russian SFSR.
qas: answers: April 17, 1946
question: On what date was Kaliningrad Oblast annexed?

answers: East Prussia
question: What province of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of?

answers: the Russian SFSR
question: What administrative division did Kaliningrad Oblast become a part of?

context: On February 8, 1955, Malenkov was officially demoted to deputy Prime Minister. As First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev's authority was significantly enhanced by Malenkov's demotion.
qas: answers: Malenkov
question: Who was demoted on February 8, 1955?

answers: deputy Prime Minister
question: To what position was Malenkov demoted?

answers: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
question: What position was held by Nikita Khrushchev?

answers: Nikita Khrushchev
question: Who benefited from the demotion of Malenkov?

context: On January 9, 1957, Karachay Autonomous Oblast and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were restored by Khrushchev and they were transferred from the Georgian SSR back to the Russian SFSR.
qas: answers: January 9, 1957
question: When was the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic transferred from the Georgian SSR?

answers: Karachay Autonomous Oblast
question: What territory was transferred along with the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic?

answers: Khrushchev
question: Who transferred the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957?

answers: the Russian SFSR
question: To what republic was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred in 1957?

answers: the Georgian SSR
question: What republic had the Karachay Autonomous Oblast previously been a part of?

context: In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev. Under his rule, the Russian SFSR and the rest of the Soviet Union went through an era of stagnation. Even after he died in 1982, the era didn’t end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power and introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society.
qas: answers: Nikita Khrushchev
question: Who lost power in 1964?

answers: Leonid Brezhnev
question: Who assumed a position of power in 1964?

answers: 1982
question: When did Leonid Brezhnev die?

answers: Mikhail Gorbachev
question: Whose assumption of power ended the era of stagnation?

answers: introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society
question: How did Mikhail Gorbachev end the era of stagnation?

context: On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics.
qas: answers: June 12, 1990
question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR adopted?

answers: the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic
question: What body passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?

answers: the "War of Laws"
question: What was the name of the period inaugurated by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?

answers: the Soviet Union
question: What government was the Russian Federation fighting against during this period?

context: On March 17, 1991, an all-Russian referendum created the post of President of the RSFSR. On June 12, Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia by popular vote. During an unsuccessful coup attempt on August 19–21, 1991 in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union and Russia, President of Russia Yeltsin strongly supported the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.
qas: answers: March 17, 1991
question: On what date was the office of President of the RSFSR created?

answers: Boris Yeltsin
question: Who was the first President of the RSFSR?

answers: Mikhail Gorbachev
question: Who was the President of the Soviet Union in 1991?

answers: June 12
question: On what date did the first election for President of the RSFSR occur?

answers: August 19–21, 1991
question: During what period was there an attempted coup in Moscow?

context: On August 23, after the failure of GKChP, in the presence of Gorbachev, Yeltsin signed a decree suspending all activity by the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR in the territory of Russia. On November 6, he went further, banning the Communist Parties of the USSR and the RSFSR from the territory of the RSFSR.
qas: answers: August 23
question: On what date was the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR suspended?

answers: Yeltsin
question: Who signed the decree suspending the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?

answers: November 6
question: On what date was the Communist Parties of the USSR banned from operating in the RSFSR?

answers: Gorbachev
question: Aside from Yeltsin, what notable figure was present at the signing of the August 23 decree?

context: On December 8, 1991, at Viskuli near Brest (Belarus), the President of the Russian SFSR and the heads of Byelorussian SSR and Ukrainian SSR signed the "Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States" (known in media as Belavezha Accords). The document, consisting of a preamble and fourteen articles, stated that the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality. However, based on the historical community of peoples, relations between them, given the bilateral treaties, the desire for a democratic rule of law, the intention to develop their relations based on mutual recognition and respect for state sovereignty, the parties agreed to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. On December 12, the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR by an overwhelming majority: 188 votes for, 6 against, 7 abstentions. On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and recalled all Russian deputies from the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The legality of this act is the subject of discussions because, according to the 1978 Constitution (Basic Law) of the Russian SFSR, the Russian Supreme Soviet had no right to do so. However, by this time the Soviet government had been rendered more or less impotent, and was in no position to object. Although the December 12 vote is sometimes reckoned as the moment that the RSFSR seceded from the collapsing Soviet Union, this is not the case. It appears that the RSFSR took the line that it was not possible to secede from an entity that no longer existed.
qas: answers: Belarus
question: In what country is Viskuli located?

answers: December 8, 1991
question: On what date was the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed?

answers: Belavezha Accords
question: What is another name for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States?

answers: the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
question: What body ratified the Belavezha Accords on December 12?

answers: fourteen
question: The Belavezha Accords consisted of how many articles?

context: On December 24, Yeltsin informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations that by agreement of the member states of the CIS Russian Federation would assume the membership of the Soviet Union in all UN organs (including permanent membership in the UN Security Council). Thus, Russia is considered to be an original member of the UN (since October 24, 1945) along with Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) and Belarus (Byelorussian SSR). On December 25—just hours after Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union—the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation (Russia), reflecting that it was now a sovereign state with Yeltsin assuming the Presidency. The change was originally published on January 6, 1992 (Rossiyskaya Gazeta). According to law, during 1992, it was allowed to use the old name of the RSFSR for official business (forms, seals and stamps). The Russian Federation's Constitution (Fundamental Law) of 1978, though with the 1991–1992 Amendements, remained in effect until the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.
qas: answers: December 24
question: When did the Russian Federation assume the Soviet Union's membership in the UN?

answers: December 25
question: On what day did Gorbachev give up the presidency of the Soviet Union?

answers: the Russian Federation
question: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the resignation of Gorbachev?

answers: Yeltsin
question: Who was the first president of the Russian Federation?

answers: Rossiyskaya Gazeta
question: In what periodical was the new sovereign status of the Russian Federation first published?

context: The Government was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars (1917–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1978) and Council of Ministers–Government (1978–1991). The first government was headed by Vladimir Lenin as "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR" and the last by Boris Yeltsin as both head of government and head of state under the title "President".
qas: answers: the Council of People's Commissars
question: What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1946?

answers: Council of Ministers
question: What was the RSFSR government called starting in 1946?

answers: Council of Ministers–Government
question: When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?

answers: Vladimir Lenin
question: Who led the first government of the RSFSR?

answers: Boris Yeltsin
question: Who led the final government of the RSFSR?

context: The Russian SFSR was controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, until the abortive 1991 August coup, which prompted President Yeltsin to suspend the recently created Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
qas: answers: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
question: What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1991?

answers: the abortive 1991 August coup
question: What event prompted the end to the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the RSFSR?

answers: Yeltsin
question: Who suspended the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?