Sentence examples for former Russian republics from inspiring English sources

Europe (including former Russian republics) voted for Conchita Wurst.

There will be consequences for former Russian republics that embrace the European Union.

The parallels between Ukraine are eerie and suggest there is trouble looming once again in both of these former Russian republics.

South Ossetia, Abkhazia or Transdniestria could easily be used by Putin to send a message to the world and to other former Russian republics that there is a cost to be paid for leaning to the West.

He encouraged workers of these former Russian states to rise up and set up Soviet republics.

Kasparov was bidding to become president of Fide, the world governing body of chess, and was up against Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, who had led Fide for 19 years.

And this isn't even a new revelation about the 53-year-old former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.

Since 2004, Mr. Kadyrov, himself a former rebel fighter and boxer, has transformed the internal Russian republic on the Caucasus' northern slopes from a war-ravaged ruin into a police microstate.

A Kremlin-backed former secret police general has been elected president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia.

In June 1990 the Russian republic declared sovereignty, establishing the primacy of Russian law within the republic.

It became an autonomous republic within the Russian republic in 1936.