INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES OF EMPOWERING MINORITIES IN THE POST-SOVIET SATELLITE STATES OF EASTERN EUROPE
Journal: EPH - International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
Year: 2020

The present paper deals with the challenges of minorities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of the former Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) following its disintegration in 1991.It begins by outlining the origins of what constitute the politics of empowerment as ushered by the two main international organizations of the 20th Century as the League of Nations and the United Nations Organisations which were created in the aftermaths of the First and Second World Wars of 191