The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states ... Armenia and Azerbaijan Only part of the persons born in one of the 15 states of the former Soviet Union are included in the ...

and became republics of the Soviet Union. In thus reversing the course of modern Baltic history, Moscow separated the Baltic countries not only from Western Europe, toward which they had been oriented ...

During 1992–97, most of the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union have made significant progress toward macroeconomic stabilization. While average inflation has declined ...