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Post-Soviet states
- MoldovaMoldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,843 square kilometres and a population of about 2.38 million people.
- Satellite stateA satellite state has been part of the English language since as early as 1780, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
- AbkhaziaAbkhazia covers 8,665 square kilometres on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, yet most of the world does not recognise it exists as a country.
- South OssetiaSouth Ossetia sits in a narrow fold of the Caucasus Mountains, covering just 3,900 square kilometres and home to just over 56,500 people.
- Republics of the Soviet UnionThe Republics of the Soviet Union were described in the 1977 constitution as "sovereign Soviet socialist states" that had freely chosen to unite into one…
- Shock therapy (economics)Shock therapy, in economics, is a policy package designed to transform an economy overnight. In theory, the idea is simple: rip out price controls, privatize…
- Post-Soviet statesThe Post-Soviet states came into existence on the 26th of December 1991, the day the Soviet Union formally ceased to exist.
- Commonwealth of Independent StatesThe Commonwealth of Independent States came into existence on the 8th of December 1991, born inside a forest reserve roughly 50 kilometres north of Brest…
- Eurasian Economic UnionThe Eurasian Economic Union was born on the 1st of January 2015, but its founding idea was spoken aloud more than two decades earlier by a single man…
- UkraineUkraine covers 603,628 square kilometres of Eastern Europe, making it the second-largest country on the continent after Russia.