1.   Next year, the three Baltic republics declared their independence after a failed coup attempt against Gorbachev in August.

2.   Serbs in Croatia rebelled after the republic declared independence from Yugoslavia.

3.   The former Soviet republic declared two days of mourning for the dead.

4.   The cost of the breakup was bloody crackdowns by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic when republics declared independence.

5.   The former Soviet republic declared two days of mourning.

6.   The former Soviet republic has declared two days of mourning for the victims of the accident.

7.   The tiny, mostly Muslim republic declared independence three years ago but Russia refuses to let it go.

8.   - The former Yugoslav republic declares that its constitution shall not be interpreted as a claim on Greek territory or interference in the internal affairs of another state.