1 This draft consistently replaces the previous draft's reference to “republics” with “states.” Due to the sheer number of such changes, only the first such change will be noted.Google Scholar

2 A previous reference, making it incumbent on “republics party to the Treaty…not to commit any acts of violence” has been dropped.Google Scholar

3 Previously entitled “Demarcation of Powers in the USSR,” the Article contained what is now Articles 5 and 6. Emphasis added.Google Scholar

4 In the previous draft, this power was exercised by the USSR “together with the republics.” It replaces a reference to “Monitoring the observance of the Constitution and Laws of the USSR” which has been moved to Article 6 of the current draft, placing it under joint union and republican authority. In the process, these monitoring responsiblities have been expanded. See the last paragraph of Article 6.Google Scholar

5 Formerly, this sentence read: “monitoring the observance of the Constitution and Laws of the USSR.”Google Scholar

6 This version is much more specific than its predecessor, which allowed the Union “the coordination of activity to protect public order and to fight crime.”Google Scholar

7 A former paragraph on “the leadership of defense enterprises and organizations in the creation and production of civilian output” has been dropped completely.Google Scholar

8 Rewording in more specific lanugage of former draft's “establishing a regime for the state borders of the USSR, and the sea and air-space of the USSR.”Google Scholar

9 Previously, these items were contained in the following paragraph. At that time, they included a reference to “The granting of assistance to foreign states” that has since been dropped.Google Scholar

10 The new wording drops references to “the protection of family, mothers and children” and “the promotion and development of culture”. The latter appears to have been moved to the next paragraph.Google Scholar

11 Formerly, this paragraph appeared in Article 5 of the March 1991 draft.Google Scholar

12 In the previous draft, this paragraph ensured free development and protection to all forms of property “provided by the legislation of the USSR and the republics.”Google Scholar

13 The former draft only mentioned rights of ownership in specific reference to the exercise of Union powers, stating that, “the framework of the law of the republics creates the necessary conditions for the activity of the USSR.”Google Scholar

14 This formulation gives the republics a more active role in providing the Union with the aforementioned facilities. Previously, the republicswere stated to be the “owners of the land, its subsoil, and the natural resources in their territory, and of state property, with the exception of the part of it that is contractually assigned to the Union for the exercise of the purposes entrusted to it.”Google Scholar

15 The former first paragraph of this article was left out of the current draft. It read, “The previous draft contained the following paragraph, now absent, “The republics autonomously set taxes and levies and determine their budgets.”Google Scholar

16 The following paragrpahs of this article, which appeared in the previous draft, have been left out: “The USSR Constitution shall be adopted by a congress of representatives of states party to the Treaty”; “The USSR Constitution may not contravene the Union Treaty.”Google Scholar

17 A paragraph stating, “Representation of all national-territorial formations in the USSR Supreme Soviet is guaranteed” has been dropped from the current draft.Google Scholar

18 Article 15 of the previous draft on “The Council of the Federation” has been dropped from the current version. It read, “The Council of the Federation is constituted under the USSR president's leadership and comprises the USSR vice president and the presidents (supreme state officials) of the republics for the examination of the main questions of the Union's domestic and foreign policy, coordinating the republic's actions, and coordinating relations between the Union and the republics.Google Scholar

19 There is no mention here, as there was in the former draft, of a “Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, and heads of other USSR state organs.”Google Scholar

20 This paragraph was included in lieu of the previous draft's Article 25, “Appendices to the Treaty.” The following article of the current treaty is entirely new.Google Scholar