Sentence examples for formerly soviet republics from inspiring English sources

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

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

Analysts suspect that one of his chief goals is the expansion of Russian influence in other formerly Soviet republics under the guise of an economic union.

Armenia's bloodless revolution has so far avoided the aggressive response from Moscow that met the overthrow of authority in other formerly Soviet republics, notably Ukraine and Georgia.

Like the other formerly Soviet republics in the Central Asian tinderbox, Turkmenistan has made the transition to freedom only in the sense that it is ruled now by a local dictator rather than by one in Moscow.

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.

In 1994, Ukraine became the first formerly Soviet republic to experience a peaceful transfer of power via the ballot box, when Leonid Kuchma won a presidential election, replacing Leonid Kravchuk.

Both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan were once Soviet republics.

Kyrgyzstan is a poor central Asian country that was formerly a Soviet republic.

There is truth to that: the formerly Soviet Central Asian republic contains an American air base that supports operations in neigboring Afghanistan and has been targeted by groups linked to Al Qaeda.

It was formerly one of the poorest Soviet Republics, and the post-socialist transition led to degraded political and economic relations with other successors of the USSR, the rupture of important transfer payments from the former centre, and a temporary decline of the national economy.