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    The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged...
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  • The road signs in the post-Soviet states Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan...
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    dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of controversy. Some Post-Soviet states adopted policies...
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    Military history of the Russian Federation Post-Soviet states Second Cold War Ethnic conflicts in the Soviet Union See 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions...
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    all other republics emerged as fully independent post-Soviet states. During its existence, the Soviet Union produced many significant social and technological...
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    creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. There were two very distinct types of republics in the Soviet Union: The larger union republics, representing...
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    Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP–CPSU) is a federation of communist parties in the post-Soviet states founded in 1993. Gennady Zyuganov...
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  • Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located...
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  • term has seldom been applied to states other than those in the Soviet orbit. In Soviet usage, the term applied to states in the orbit of Nazi Germany, Fascist...
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    technology and weaponry. The analysis of the succession of states for the 15 post-Soviet states is complex. The Russian Federation is widely seen as the...
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  • Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Historically, it was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The term...
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    After the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) in December 1991, about 25 million ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states found themselves living outside...
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the post-Soviet states face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. In January...
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    1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Soviet ruble continued to be used in the post-Soviet states, forming a "ruble zone", until it was...
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    reabilitacija) was a term used in the context of the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. Beginning after the death of Stalin in 1953, the government...
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  • Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states refers to observations that there has been a rapid disappearance of various types of cockroaches since...
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    Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991...
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    Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were fully established in 1933 as the succeeding bilateral ties to those between the Russian Empire...
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  • Spetsnaz (category Military units and formations of the Soviet Union)
    (Russian: Спецназ) are special forces in many post-Soviet states. Historically, this term referred to the Soviet Union's Spetsnaz GRU, special operations units...
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    the Soviet Union, and now in all post-Soviet states, fully comply with the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, to which the Soviet Union...
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    territory; beyond, many units and formations were taken over by the post-Soviet states; some were withdrawn to Russia, and some dissolved amid conflict,...
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    The Soviet people (Russian: сове́тский наро́д, romanized: sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union. This demonym was presented...
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    Embassy of the United States, Moscow Russia–United States relations Soviet Union–United States relations Russian Empire–United States relations Ambassadors...
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  • which are called arrondissements administratifs in French. In some post-Soviet states, there are cities that are divided into municipal raioni similar to...
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    Hammer and sickle (category National symbols of the Soviet Union)
    symbol for Marxism, communist parties, or socialist states. Two federal subjects of the post-Soviet Russian Federation use the hammer and sickle in their...
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    political and social stability" which accompanied the Soviet dissolution in many post-Soviet states. A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought...
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    Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government...
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    shot a young Soviet Ukrainian, named Yuri Vlasenko, who was occupying a room in the Consular Section of the Embassy of the United States in Moscow, demanding...
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    a part of the Soviet Union and its residents were Soviet citizens. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all post-Soviet states established separate...
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    Neo-Sovietism, sometimes known as neo-Bolshevism, is the Soviet Union–style of policy decisions in some post-Soviet states, as well as a political movement...
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