Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By 2007, 10 of the 15 post-Soviet states had recovered their 1991 GDP levels. [56] According to economist Branko Milanović, in 2015 many former Soviet republics and other former communist countries still have not caught up to their 1991 levels of output, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan and Ukraine ...
This category is for former states within the territory of the Russian Empire that existed during some period of time until the next major milestone in the history of the area: Dissolution of the Soviet Union. NB: Imperial Russia also included Poland, Finland and at some time Alaska (later sold to the United States).
On 12 June 1990, the Russian SFSR issued a Declaration of State Sovereignty, proclaiming Russia a sovereign state whose laws take priority over Soviet ones. [34] The following month Yeltsin told the ASSRs to "take as much sovereignty as you can swallow" during a speech in Kazan, Tatar ASSR. [35]
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
In contrast, the Russian government and state officials maintain that the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states was legitimate. [13] Constitutionally, the Soviet Union was a federation. In accordance with provisions present in its Constitution (versions adopted in 1924, 1936 and 1977), each republic retained the right to secede from the USSR.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, about 25 million Russians (about a sixth of the former Soviet Russians) found themselves outside Russia and were about 10% of the population of the post-Soviet states other than Russia. Millions of them later became refugees from various interethnic conflicts. [4]
In the 1950s there were 10 oblasts in the three Baltic republics. 1953-04-28 Law on abolition of Pärnu, Tallinn and Tartu oblasts (Estonia) [1] 1953-04-25 Law on abolition of Riga, Daugavpils and Liepāja oblasts (Latvia) [2]