The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states ... An allocation method on the basis of their place of birth is used to determine the nationality of these people as citizens of ...

The Russian president is employing the same playbook as it did in Ukraine to control independent countries, experts say.

and Russia, or the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF), as for Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and, more recently, Tajikistan. 3 The Stand-By Arrangement has been used to support ...