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They need to sustain the trade flow established during Soviet times
Poland did.
Poland did.
The 15 post-Soviet states are typically divided into the following five groupings. Each of these regions has its own common set of traits, owing not only to geographic and cultural factors but also to that region's history in relation to Russia. In addition, there are a number of de facto independent, but internationally unrecognized states (see the section Separatist conflicts below). BalticEstoniaLatviaLithuaniaEastern EuropeBelarusMoldovaUkraineTranscaucasusArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaCentral AsiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEurasiaRussia:)
The Soviet Union
They need to sustain the trade flow established during Soviet times
Russia became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Poland did.
Poland did.
It became independent when the soviet union fell apart in 1991
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia (on the Gulf of Finland) became an independent state.
The 15 post-Soviet states are typically divided into the following five groupings. Each of these regions has its own common set of traits, owing not only to geographic and cultural factors but also to that region's history in relation to Russia. In addition, there are a number of de facto independent, but internationally unrecognized states (see the section Separatist conflicts below). BalticEstoniaLatviaLithuaniaEastern EuropeBelarusMoldovaUkraineTranscaucasusArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaCentral AsiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanEurasiaRussia:)
They all became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union
No. They became and stayed two independent countries.
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was founded in 1924 as a reorganization of the Soviet Socialist Republics of Bukhara, Khorezm, and Turkestan. Uzbekistan as an independent country became free of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukraine became independant on 1992, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Along with all of the other 14 countries that became independant republics.