Sentence examples for impoverished republic from inspiring English sources
Such is the precarious position of growers throughout this impoverished republic of seven million that Farhod refused to be photographed or to give his real name.
Not only is he the ruler of an impoverished republic only now rebuilding itself after years of bitter civil war, he is also regularly forced to fend off accusations of rampant human rights abuses and runaway corruption.
Like the man he served, Tokhir Yoldesh, the movement's imam, he came from the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, the cultural center of an impoverished republic of 24 million that declared its independence from Moscow in 1991.
During a recent visit to that impoverished republic in the south-western corner of the former Soviet Union, he could boss his hosts around as if he were the leader of a superpower.Does that mean that Mr Putin can hope to recover the power Russia had over the rest of the Soviet Union before communism collapsed a decade ago?
The small and impoverished Muslim republic shares a border with Chechnya, where federal forces have fought two wars against separatist rebels in the last decade and a half.
FOR a small and impoverished Balkan republic, and one that used to be part of Yugoslavia to boot, Macedonia has done an unusually good job of staying out of trouble.
He is now a deputy in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, for the impoverished southern republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia.For all this, Mr Berezovsky is distrusted, even detested, by many Russians.
By contrast, Mr. Ilyumzhinov, 51, is a businessman who was born in Kalmykia, an impoverished Russian republic on the Caspian Sea, and amassed a fortune after the fall of the Soviet Union, though exactly how, and how much, is something of a mystery.
Laar's reforms are often credited with responsibility for transforming Estonia from an impoverished Soviet Republic to the "Baltic Tiger".
Today, many of the views of tiny villages and coastal crags are unchanged, although Byron and his friends, who traveled in open sailing boats and along rutted carriage trails, would be astonished at how the once-impoverished Swiss republic has become one of the wealthiest corners of Europe.
A country of 3 million people, the impoverished former Soviet republic of Moldova is a hub for transnational crime.
