Armenia and Azerbaijan Only part of the persons born in one of the 15 states of the former Soviet Union are included in the municipal population registers (GBA) as being born in one of the present new ...

The death toll from the Tajik-Kyrgyz border skirmishes has reached 100, according to officials. The two former Soviet states clashed last week in an armed border dispute reportedly involving the ...

A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

The state oil company in Azerbaijan has not been privatized, but part of the Kazakh oil sector has been privatized using traditional cash sales of shares and investment tenders. The enterprises in the ...

Putin is undismayed and vows to press on with his plan to rebuild the Soviet Union. Another reason Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 was because Ukraine was negotiating with NATO to become a member.

The opposition called the result a “constitutional coup,” setting up a possible showdown over a bitterly fought election that was watched closely by the European Union and the U.S. Georgia’s ...

But reducing barriers to entry is not enough—hard budget constraints must also be imposed on the old money-losing state-owned enterprises. The 1990s witnessed one of the most dramatic economic ...