Sentence examples similar to with the ex soviet from inspiring English sources

Some 70% of Polish trade is now done with the EU, and only about a tenth of it with the ex-Soviet countries.

More than half the 20 countries with the lowest level of satisfaction with health are in the ex-Soviet Union or eastern Europe though in statistical terms they seem relatively well off.

And Ukraine, with 45 million people and the biggest economy in the ex-Soviet region aside from Russia's, is a crucial component of the eastern area over which the Kremlin leader intends to spread his influence.

Most of the ex-Soviet states in the loose trade alliance with Russia are economic basket cases that are a drain on Moscow's treasury, Weiss said.

The ousting of the generally pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was a major defeat for Putin and means that the ex-Soviet state is now swiftly aligning itself with the European Union in a historic switch away from the Kremlin.

Transnistria, which seceded from the ex-Soviet state of Moldova more than two decades ago, has a border with Ukraine, but not with Russia.

Or take the biggest of the ex-Soviet republics.

But EU leaders have made no clear commitment to the countries of the ex-Soviet empire.

Russia's growing clout in the ex-Soviet region is keenly felt in Latvia.

Iran, as it would, blames not over-fishing but oil drilling by the ex-Soviet republics.

Even Russia's closest allies among the ex-Soviet states, such as Belarus and Kazakhstan, have not gone along with Putin.