Sentence examples for former soviet nations from inspiring English sources

Having foreign military units from the United States, Britain, France, Poland and former Soviet nations march in the Red Square parade — that bulwark of selfish nationalism framed in a distinctly Soviet setting — was a definite breakthrough.

The poverty of former Soviet nations adds to the risk.

Russian observers joined with those from other former Soviet nations in decreeing Mr. Lukashenko's victory both democratic and fair.

Migrants from the former Soviet nations in Central Asia are lumped in as white along with descendants of New England pilgrims.

Russia's air base in Kant is seen as an important outpost for the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-dominated alliance of former Soviet nations intended as a counterweight to NATO.

Even compared with the other former Soviet nations, Ukraine — with a population of 46 million — seems to waver between Europe and Russia, so that isolating it from the West could have profound consequences.

In the former Soviet nation of Georgia, six athletes from the national wrestling team had provisional suspensions lifted, including the Olympic silver medallist Davit Modzmanashvili and the European silver medallist Beka Lomtadze.

Berdymukhamedov became ruler of the oil-rich former Soviet nation – known for its megalomanic leaders – in 2006.

The British embassy in Kyrgyzstan said yesterday that the prosecution of corrupt former Kyrgyz officials could help the goal of ensuring stability in the troubled former Soviet nation.

For Ukrainians transfixed by her ordeal, she came to embody long-simmering animosities over government impotence and impunity for the privileged in this former Soviet nation.

A shrewd operator who has played Brussels against Moscow, Lukashenko has raised his standing with the EU by seeking to distance his former Soviet nation from Russia.