Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Caucasus: Georgia, ...

The Soviet Union was transformed, through forced collectivization, from being a food exporter to being unable to feed itself. The command economy limited the competitive gains that could be made from ...

Russia is transcontinental ... These are known as Khrushchevkas and they're named after the former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, who first announced in the 1950s that the Soviet ...

The map below ... By comparison, Russia has been led by three presidents, with Putin having been in office for 17 years. In 2021, Putin, the former agent of the Soviet Union’s KGB security ...