How did the the soviet union grew to include fifteen republics.

Soviet Union, in full Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik or Sovetsky Soyuz, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia

Individual rights and freedoms protect every person in canada whether they're citizens or not. the only right, non-citizens don't have is the right to vote.

Answerencourage alternative timber sources,increase public awareness of the forests,increase research into forestry,involve local communities in forest projectsalso one of the main initiatives of the 1977 act was to introduce a new approach to forest management known as selective management system, this is recognised as one of the most sustainable approaches to tropical forestry management in the world