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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 stateThe term satellite state emerged in English texts as early as 1780. Writers used the phrase to describe planetary mechanics where smaller moons circle larger…
- 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 OssetiaIn the 13th century, a nomadic Iranian tribe known as the Alans faced destruction from Mongol armies. Survivors fled south across the Caucasus Mountains into…
- Republics of the Soviet UnionArticle 76 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution defined a Union Republic as "a sovereign Soviet socialist state which has united with the other Soviet republics…
- Shock therapy (economics)In 1985, Bolivia faced a hyperinflation rate that reached 24,000 percent. The currency became worthless as people carried wheelbarrows of cash to buy bread.
- Post-Soviet statesIn December of 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. This event created fifteen independent sovereign states that now occupy the territory once held by…
- Commonwealth of Independent StatesOn the 8th of December 1991, three leaders met in a forest reserve to sign a document that would end a superpower. Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and…
- Eurasian Economic UnionThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left a fragmented economic landscape across Eurasia. Former republics like Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia faced…
- UkraineStone tools discovered in Korolevo, western Ukraine, date back 1.4 million years, marking the earliest securely dated hominin presence in Europe.