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What agreement, signed near Brest in December 1991 by the leaders of three Soviet republics, formally dissolved the Soviet Union?

Answer: The Belavezha Accords — Signed by the leaders of the RSFSR, Ukraine, and Belarus at a hunting lodge in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the accords declared that 'the USSR as a subject of international law ceases to exist.'

Signed by the leaders of the RSFSR, Ukraine, and Belarus at a hunting lodge in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the accords declared that 'the USSR as a subject of international law ceases to exist.'

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