A landlocked country wedged between Afghanistan, China, and several former Soviet republics, Tajikistan has a challenging ...

Central Asia experienced an overall drop in fertility, but all five of its post-Soviet republics show a fertility rate that is well above replacement level. Fertility rate is one of the ...

Russia is considering attracting migrant workers from Asian countries like Myanmar to address labor shortages, according to ...

The Presidents of the Soviet Republics of Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia met and signed a treaty which ended 70 years of Soviet communism. Hear from two of those leaders Show more In December 1991 ...

Gorbachev recalled he had stated many times the Soviet Union could have been preserved "provided it was modernized and reformed and the republics were granted broad rights and real sovereignty." ...

It is risky to incorporate post-Soviet states into the North Atlantic ... joint decision-making and joint action." The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined the alliance in 1999; Bulgaria ...

The decline of communism close communismA system of running a country in which all means of production ... In 1990 and 1991, one by one the former Soviet Republics of the USSR (Lithuania, Latvia ...