Bear country?
Else clues• (missing clue)
• ... riddle wrapped in a mystery
• '84 Olymmpics no-show
• '84 Olympics boycotter
• 'Back in the ___'
• 'Back in the ___' (Beatles song)
• 'Back in the ___' (Beatles)
• Back in the ___, you don't know how lucky you are, boy
• Back in the ___ (Beatles hit)
• Back in the ___ (Beatles jam)
• Back in the ___ (Beatles tune)
• Back in the ___ (Fab Four tune)
• Back in the___ (1968 song)
• Evil Empire, according to Reagan
• Evil Empire
• Evil empire initials
• Evil empire of the '80s
• Georgia, etc., once
• Gorky Park setting
• Miracle on Ice losing team
• Miracle on Ice opponent
• Red letters
• Rocky IV setting: Abbr.
• Spies Like Us setting
• The Evil Empire
• The Kremlin Letter state
• 1960 European Championship winner
• 1968 Beatles' hit 'Back in the ___'
• 1972 Summer Olympics medal champion
• 1980 Olympics host
• 1980 Summer Olympics host
• 1980 Winter Olympics host
• 1984 Olympics no-show
• 1984 Summer Games boycotter
• 1984 Summer Olympics boycotter
• 1984 summer Olympics no-show
• 20th C. superpower
• 20th-c. nation
• 20th-cen. superpower
• 20th-cent. power
• A country's fmr. name
• A neighbor of Pol.
• Abbr. in a White Album title
• Abbr. in old atlases
• Abbreviation in a White Album title
• Afghanistan occupier, in the 1980s
• Aka CCCP
• Amer. ally in W.W. II
• Amer. WWII ally
• An Afg. neighbor
• Atlas abbr. before 1991
• Atlas abbr. until 1991
• Beatles song Back in the ___
• Beatles. hit Back in the ___
• Beatles' Back in the ___
• Beatles' hit 'Back in the ___'
• Big blotch on old maps
• Biggest breakup of 1991
• Billy Joel once played there
• Billy Joel played a concert there
• Birthplace of no one under the age of 17
• Bloc letters, once
• Bloc that dissolved in 1991
• BOAC destination, in song
• Boycotter in 1984 headlines
• Boycotter of the '84 L.A. Olympics
• Boycotter of the L.A. Games
• Brezhnev's empire
• Brezhnev's fed.
• Brezhnev's initials?
• Brezhnev's land
• Brezhnev's land, in brief
• Buryat Republic's locale
• Bygone atlas initials
• Bygone atlas listing
• C.I.S. predecessor
• C.I.S., formerly
• C.I.S., once
• CCCP on 20th-century maps
• CCCP was on its stamps
• CCCP, in English
• CCCP, in the West
• CCCP, to us
• CIS forerunner
• CIS precursor
• Cold War abbr.
• Cold War adversary
• Cold War adversary: Abbr.
• Cold War bloc
• Cold War concern
• Cold War country
• Cold War country, briefly
• Cold War country, for short
• Cold war country: Abbr.
• Cold War empire: Abbr.
• Cold War enemy
• Cold War foe
• Cold War foe, briefly
• Cold war foe, for short
• Cold War gp.
• Cold War initials
• Cold War inits.
• Cold War letters
• Cold War participant
• Cold War participant: abbr.
• Cold War power
• Cold war power: Abbr.
• Cold War principal
• Cold War rival (Abbr.)
• Cold War rival of the USA
• Cold War side
• Cold war superpower
• Collapsed empire
• Communist powerhouse, once
• Cosigner of the ABM Treaty
• Cosmonaut's country, for short
• Country Billy Joel once played
• Country Billy Joel played famously
• Country dissolved Dec. 8, 1991
• Country estab. in 1922
• Country featured in a Beatles song
• Country founded in 1922
• Country founded in 1922: Abbr.
• Country in a White Album title
• Country in a 1969 Beatles song
• Country in a 1969 Beatles song title
• Country in a Beatle song
• Country in a Beatles song title
• Country in a Beatles title
• Country many world chess champs represented
• Country mentioned in a Beatles title
• Country that competed in the Olympics before it dissolved in 1991: Abbr.
• Country that disappeared in '91
• Country where Billy Joel played a famous concert
• Country where Billy Joel played a tour
• Country with a hammer-and-sickle flag, for short
• Ctry. announcing an Olympic pull-out on 5/7/84
• Dec. 1991 newsmaker
• Defunct empire.
• Empire until 1991: Abbr.
• Erstwhile empire, in brief
• Erstwhile power
• Ex-superpower
• Ex-superpower letters
• Ex-UN member
• Extinct red giant
• Fed. dissolved by the Belavezha Accords
• Fed. that dissolved in 1991
• Federation formed July 6, 1923: Abbr.
• First team to beat the USA in Olympic basketball
• Five-Year Plan empire
• Five-Year Plan implementer, for short
• Five-Year Plan nation
• Focus of a big breakup in '91
• Former evil empire
• Former 15-member grp.
• Former communist country
• Former communist country, briefly
• Former communist state
• Former empire
• Former empire inits.
• Former Eurasian superpower
• Former federation
• Former G.D.R. ally
• Former geopolitical initials
• Former gt. power
• Former inits. in Kiev
• Former largest nation, for short
• Former map abbr.
• Former map initials
• Former map letters
• Former Olympic team
• Former Olympics powerhouse
• Former power
• Former Red giant
• Former red states?
• Former rival of the USA
• Former Russ. federation
• Former Russian nation: Abbr.
• Former Security Council member
• Former Soviet inits.
• Former state whose motto was Workers of the world, unite!
• Former super power, briefly
• Former superpower
• Former superpower's letters
• Former U.N. member
• Former UN intials
• Former Warsaw Pact member
• Former Warsaw Pact nation
• Former world power
• Former world power (Abbr.)
• Former world power, briefly
• Former world power, for short
• Former world power, shortly
• Frequent David Remnick topic
• George Kennan specialty
• Georgia used to be part of it
• Gorbachev was its last leader: Abbr.
• Gorbachev was its last pres.
• Gorbachev's country (abbr.)
• Gorbachev's empire
• Gorbachev's fed.
• Gorbachev's nation
• Gorby's crumbled empire: abbr.
• Gorby's domain
• Gorby's former domain
• Gorby's land
• Gorby's nation
• Gorby's realm, once: Abbr.
• Gp. dissolved 12/26/1991
• Home of chess champs, once
• Home of the upright bear.
• Home to every undisputed world chess champions during the 1950's and 1960's
• Host country of the 1980 Summer Olympics: Abbr.
• HUAC concern
• I>Back in the ___I>
• Ice hockey medalist in every Olympics it competed in
• Initials on a pre-1991 map
• Initials on old maps
• Intl. power, once
• Intl. superpower, once
• It annexed Latvia in '40
• It became the CIS
• It broke up in 1991
• It broke up in Dec. 1991
• It broke up in Dec. of '91
• It ceased to be in Dec. 1991
• It died in 1991
• It died in 1991 at the age of 68
• It disappeared on Dec. 26, 1991
• It dissolved in Dec. '91
• It dissolved in December 1991
• It dissolved into the CIS
• It had a Black Sea Fleet
• It's been dead a decade
• It's now C.I.S.
• It's Russia now
• Its parts included an Arm. and a Lat.
• Ivan Drago's Rocky IV backers
• J.F.K. adversary
• K.G.B. country
• Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, once
• KGB creator
• KGB funder
• KGB locale
• KGB whereabouts
• KGB's land
• KGB's place
• Khrushchev's concern
• Khrushchev's country
• Khrushchev's country: Abbr.
• Khrushchev's domain
• Khrushchev's home
• Khrushchev's land (abbr.)
• Khrushchev's realm: Abbr.
• L. Brezhnev's concern
• Land in a Beatles song
• Land of bears?
• Largest country, once (abbr.)
• Largest nation, once
• Lenin's land
• Lenin's land, for short
• Lenin's land: Abbr.
• Leningrad setting: abbr.
• Letter's on Olga Korbut's uniform jacket, once
• Letters for an ex-superpower
• Letters on an old Asian map
• Letters on an old map
• Letters on an old map of Asia
• Letters on old maps
• Locale in a 1968 Beatles song
• Locale in a Beatles song
• Locale in a Beatles song title
• Locale in a Beatles title
• Locale in a Beatles title spot
• Officially dissolved 31 December 1991
• A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
• Established in 1922
• Included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others)