Sentence examples for formerly soviet countries from inspiring English sources

Armenia and Azerbaijan, two neighbouring formerly Soviet countries, have been at war for almost 30 years over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

At the very least, the treaty allows Mr Putin to show the world he has alternatives to engagement with the West.Two other formerly Soviet countries are undeterred by Russia's aggression.

He published The Devils Dancee in chapters on Facebook and it went viral through the "Stans" – the five formerly Soviet countries in central Asia for whom his central character, the real-life early 20th-century writer Abdulla Qodiriy who was executed in 1938, was a hero.

In a so-called convergence report issued every two years, the E.C.B. said that none of the eight countries it examined, which include Sweden and seven formerly Soviet bloc countries, met all the criteria for joining the euro.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has given rise to the massive population movements among the newly independent countries that were formerly Soviet republics.

Trade with EU countries dominates their economies, much as trade with Soviet countries did once.

Many European countries have significantly improved their smoke-free scores from 2005 to 2007, including formerly soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, an advancement that was greatly facilitated by the European integration process and the EU Directives on tobacco control.

How has Russia's domestic political trajectory from liberalizing country to increasingly autocratic affected its foreign policy toward Ukraine, Georgia, and other formerly Soviet states?

Formerly Soviet Estonia has embraced new technology and data-management with impressive results.

Tajikistan is the poorest of all formerly Soviet republics, according to the UNDP human development index.

Cigarette smoking is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in former Soviet countries.