I think you refer to the Olympics where there was the Unified Team (under Olympic flag). I think the Commonwealth of Independent States played friendlies only.

I think you refer to the Olympics where there was the Unified Team (under Olympic flag). I think the Commonwealth of Independent States played friendlies only. But I used wrong name for tournament: what I meant was the World Championships (played every year), not the World Cup (a rare event, now planned for 2016). There Russia was a successor to USSR after 1991.