Moscow Sovereignty Accords (Greater Cold War)

The Moscow Sovereignty Accords was a diplomatic agreement and recognition treaty signed by the Soviet Union and the former Soviet Republics of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Moldova in January of 1992 after the New Union Treaty was finally signed and ratified by all supporting and opposing republics. The agreement was first proposed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as a means of finally completing the New Union Treaty by allowing the opposing republics to secede from the union and they would be recognized as sovereign independent nations.

Background
During the Revolutions of 1989, the Soviet Union and the entirety of the Eastern Bloc found itself caught in a period of social and political upheaval as failed policies, monopoly of power held by the Communist Party, and recent trends of liberalization of the communist bloc had lead many people to protest against the various communist governments after years of authoritarian policies and isolation. As the revolutions engulfed the Warsaw Pact and saw the downfall and collapse of many communist regimes such as those in Romania and others, the Soviet Union wasn't spared and saw many of the its citizens question the legitimacy of the Soviet government, communist party, and even the idea of the union as a whole. During this time, Gorbachev had instituted a series of reforms to restructure the Soviet Union into a more open political entity and went so far as to propose a complete reorganization of the entire nation in response to a referendum in 1991 which saw most of the Soviet population support preserving the union. This proposal was the New Union Treaty and it saw most of the then 15 republic support it, with a few notable exceptions. The Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, and Moldovan SSRs had all rejected the treaty while the rest of the republics supported it citing their calls of independence and complete secession from the USSR as a whole.