translate English to French: This country, which was part of the former Soviet Union and gained independence in 1991, has still not fully broken away from the practices of the former Communist regime, though of course efforts have been made to do so.
Force m'a été de constater que ce pays, appartenant à l'ex-Union soviétique et qui a acquis son indépendance en 1991, ne s'est pas encore réellement libéré des pratiques de l'ancien régime communiste. Certes, des efforts ont été accomplis.