Post-Soviet space | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-17

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states


00:02:10 1 Country comparison
00:02:20 1.1 States and geographical groupings
00:02:55 1.2 General statistics
00:03:08 1.3 Current leaders
00:03:17 1.3.1 Heads of state
00:03:25 1.3.2 Heads of government
00:03:33 2 Economy
00:06:51 3 Developmental progress
00:08:06 4 Regional organizations
00:11:20 4.1 Commonwealth of Independent States
00:12:28 4.2 Eurasian Economic Community
00:13:45 4.3 Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia
00:15:18 4.4 Eurasian Economic Union
00:16:19 4.5 Collective Security Treaty Organization
00:17:10 4.6 North Atlantic Treaty Organization
00:18:12 4.7 GUAM
00:18:44 4.8 Union of Russia and Belarus
00:19:21 5 Other regional organizations
00:19:32 5.1 Economic Cooperation Organization
00:20:04 5.2 Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations
00:20:28 5.3 Community of Democratic Choice
00:21:31 5.4 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
00:22:10 5.5 Economic cooperation organizations
00:24:10 5.6 Political integration and security alliances
00:26:03 5.6.1 Organizations in other domains
00:28:25 5.7 Other organizations
00:29:08 6 Politics
00:31:47 6.1 Separatist conflicts
00:32:19 6.1.1 Current declared states
00:34:24 6.1.2 Former declared states
00:36:39 6.2 Civil wars
00:37:14 6.3 Colour revolutions
00:38:00 6.4 Russian population in post-Soviet states
00:38:55 6.5 Religion
00:40:26 6.6 LGBT rights
00:40:55 6.7 Environment
00:48:02 6.7.1 Russia
00:50:56 6.7.2 Ukraine
00:53:30 6.7.3 Central Asia
00:55:54 6.7.4 Baltic States
00:57:56 6.7.4.1 Estonia
00:58:47 6.7.4.2 Latvia
00:59:03 6.7.4.3 Lithuania
00:59:52 7 Post-Soviet nostalgia
01:01:09 8 See also



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The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, and in Russian as the "near abroad" (discussed below) are the sovereign states that emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War. The three Baltic states were the first to declare their independence, between March and May 1990, claiming continuity from the original states that existed prior to their annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940.  The remaining 12 republics all subsequently seceded. 12 of the 15 states, excluding the Baltic states, initially formed the CIS and most joined CSTO, while the Baltic states focused on European Union and NATO membership.
Several disputed states with varying degrees of recognition exist within the territory of the former Soviet Union: Transnistria in eastern Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in northern Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan. Since 2014, the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in Eastern Ukraine have claimed independence. All of these unrecognised states except Nagorno-Karabakh depend on Russian armed support and financial aid. Nagorno-Karabakh is integrated to Armenia, which also maintains close cooperation with Russia. Prior to the annexation of Crimea to Russia in March 2014, which is not recognized by most countries, it briefly declared itself an independent state.
In the political language of Russia and some other post-Soviet states, the near abroad refers to the newly independent republics (other than Russia itself) which emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Near abroad became more widely used in English, usually to assert Russia's right to have major influence in the region.  Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the region Russia's "sphere of influence", and strategically vital for Russia. The concept has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine.