I would assume because the Soviet Union had a recognised successor state (being the Russian Federation), where as Yugoslavia did not have a recognised successor state.

The former Yugoslavia had five legally recognized successor states.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2001/06/20010629%2001-3...

Thou hast well said, Yugoslavia has no successor states: For Yugo hast had five successor states; and the domain thou now hast is not thy successor state: in that saidst thou truly.

If I'm not mistaken, and please correct me if I am, the last republic to leave the USSR was Kazakhstan - making that nation the actual USSR successor state. Though the capital was in Moscow, Russia left the USSR while the USSR still existed, and thus is not the USSR successor state.

Legally Russia is the internationally recognized successor state. Russia even paid off the whole Soviet debt, but in exchange inherited all of the USSR's legal privileges (right to have nukes under NPT, right to the spot on the Sec Council, right to observer state in Danube, etc)

Thank you.

Well, Russia is trying really hard to return to their Soviet Union days. At this point the old name is the only thing still missing.

> At this point the old name is the only thing still missing.

And about 14 countries.

More like 11 and a half by now. Or actually 10 and three quarters, depending on how you count. They are tirelessly working on bringing that number down.

You really think they'll stop after 14? Because I do not.

As is the geopolitical relevance and power.

More like the rest of the world woke up to the fact that their military is a corrupt disorderly mess. Russia hasn't fought a powerful military since WW2 and even then they barely came out on top with massive loss of life.

An even superficial ideological orientation toward Marxism-Leninism is also missing.

We’d be living in a different world if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin.

How so? I understand you are talking about Ukrainian and Georgian wars, but even them are hardly an attempt to return to SU days.

I'm not even talking about very limited influence over other ex-USSR republics. It is there but very limited.

It's not just that. Putin and his gang are actively pushing what is now referred to as neo-sovietism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Sovietism

There's no Neo-Sovietism but Duginism. It's a like an even more hardcore version of the Spanish Francoism but a la Slavic way.

They hate science and praise the Orthodox ideology with high statism. And without a country-loving science China it's just getting a luxury present for free themselves.

They will progress like crazy with very little efforth and they could buy Russian assets for scraps.

Yes, but again - this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion rather than a fair attempt of rebuilding USSR.

It's more about "ice cream for 47 kopecks" rathan then anything else.

> this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion

And yet, more than a million Russian lives alone were sacrificed to make the appeal reality.

Russia, like it or not, is actively busy restoring its older glorious days and unfortunately there is no sign of them coming anywhere near to a point where they can't sustain their losses any more. They're permanently losing upwards of 1000 soldiers per day, and that's not counting the injured, only deaths.

>And yet, more than a million Russian lives alone

As long as we are talking the current war https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c5yqkrz2xw1o Russia has 200k+ confirmed (via various sources like obituary, media posts etc) KIA. Even if we count MIA and add something on top - this is way less than mythical "million".

>They're permanently losing upwards of 1000 soldiers per day, and that's not counting the injured, only deaths.

Again - bullshit.

Also see CSIS analysis with numbers: https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine

>permanently losing

Just to be clear: "permanently losing" typically means soldiers who are unable to fight. Not killed ones.

People who lose a limb, for example, are considerent a "permanent loss".

https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2026/0... as an example: "recoverable losses—i.e., those who will never return to the battlefield"

You're missing Moldova as well.

And yes, Russia keeps invading, hacking, politically pressuring and organising disinformation campaigns to make these ex-USSR countries fall back into Russia's bloody wing.

Sure, but so far this has nothing to do with bringing USSR back.

Yup, just a coincidence.

I'm just saying that

>fall back into Russia's bloody wing.

does not equal recreating USSR.

Students Unions all over the world are very happy about that

According to an article from last year, .su might get retired by 2030

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351793

That is more political than otherwise. SU and EU both are exceptional reservations in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

And there is now a whole issue over .io that might disappear in the near future and take thousands of SaaS and AI companies with it.

Why disappear? Why not be sold and repurposed to reflect what it's actually become?

Because 2 letters should be reserved for countries and not random endeavors

Good riddance

What happens if Anguilla sinks into the ocean?

There's a few island nations looking sketchy as sea levels rise. The UN has been thinking about this problem for a couple of decades.

True, but I was specifically talking about the .ai domain that they control.