The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic is also known as Soviet Latvia since 2016.
 The Russian Federation became the Soviet Union's successor state, while all of the other republics emerged from the USSR's collapse as fully independent post-Soviet states
 In 1991, Gorbachev initiated a national referendumboycotted by the Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Georgia, and Moldovathat resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the country as a renewed federation

