The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...

Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states ... Armenia and Azerbaijan Only part of the persons born in one of the 15 states of the former Soviet Union are included in the ...

The 12 CIS countries inherited from the Soviet system strong inflationary ... in any event, used inefficiently. The Soviet Union was transformed, through forced collectivization, from being a food ...

and became republics of the Soviet Union. In thus reversing the course of modern Baltic history, Moscow separated the Baltic countries not only from Western Europe, toward which they had been oriented ...

During 1992–97, most of the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union have made significant progress toward macroeconomic stabilization. While average inflation has declined ...