Edited sentence: However, this information should be treated cautiously, as the countries named, all part of the GUUAM bloc, were viewed as anti-Russian in that period.Notable omissions are Armenia, which is the most monoethnic republic of the former USSR with 99% of population being ethnically Armenian.The information, however, is outdated, and from a period of violent break-up of the Soviet Union, when a total collapse of economy and war, were the cause of hardship