On November 27, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic adopted a declaration on the state sovereignty of the Chechen-Ingush Republic,[4] and on May 24, 1991, according to the amendments to Art. 71 of the Constitution of the RSFSR, the autonomous republic began to be called the Chechen-Ingush SSR.[5] This decision before the collapse of the USSR (December 1991) was not consistent with Art. 85 of the Constitution of the USSR, which retained the name of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.[6]