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| Moscow and St. Petersburg |
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| Moscow and St. Petersburg Unique |
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Moscow- megacity, economic activity, business-foreign investments, banking education and research, retail and machinery, tourism, population concentration, agriculture in the South
St. Petersburg- Aralic language, lakes and taiga, economy: forestry, fishing, oil shale production, phosphate fertilizer production, manufacturing, retail and service |
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| Moscow and St. Petersburg Climate |
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Moscow- humid continental, long winters
St. Petersburg- cold climate |
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| Ethnically Diverse regions |
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The South: 8 Republics
Far East: different languages, migration from elsewhere |
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| Alexander Lukashenka, Populist, conflict with Russia over boycott, wanted to give people what they need, market socialism |
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| not a massive decline, uses Russian currency |
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| Soviet Ukraine created present day Ukraine, EAST/WEST political dispute, East (Soviet), West (Ukraine), Democracy, corruption with leaders |
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| Eurasian Union w/ Kazakhstan |
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| dispute over gas pipeline |
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| Kvivo and Sevastopol, Kremlin- navy |
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| Ukraine autonomous republic |
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| Ukraine economic power in the future |
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| good climate for agriculture |
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| East (Soviet), West (Ukraine) |
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| Autonomous Gagauz Territory in Moldova |
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| Region threatened to break away from Moldova |
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| Transistria, most industrialized, Russian ethnicity |
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| Moldova Poorest European Country |
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| 1 million work abroad, source country for human trafficking, forced labor, market reform toward EU, 34% GDP, political instability, separatist movement |
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| speak Russian as second language, split b/w Ottoman and Russian rule |
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| 1917, part of Romania, easy to get Romanian citizenship |
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| political staibilty and economic growth, modern industrial sector developed, increase in birthrate and +/- migration, growth of Yerevan- metropolis city |
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| oil extraction core of the economy |
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| war with Russia over South Ossetia |
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| economic downturn in 2008, high out-migration, problem with trade with other neighbors |
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| economic growth based on oil exports, BTC pipeline, economic instability due to out-migration, no trade due to 1991 war, truce signed in 1994 |
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| 3 breakaway Republics in Georgia |
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South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Ajaria)- separatist movement, Russian identity, different language, Muslim
North Ossetia- Russia citizenship/Georgian |
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| Muslim, large, history of fighting Russian influence, hunters, resistance |
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| Russo-Caucasian War, Republic within Russia, Independence from USSR, independent Mountain Republic, Stalin deports in 1944 |
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| Politically unstable Caucasus |
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| economic stagnation, no government structure, no evolvement towards democracy, especially in Dagestan |
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| resettlement in Russia, US France and Turkey, diaspora's influence on Turkey-Armenian, Turkey-West relations |
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| 1988, Armenians petition to change political map, Armenia want this because majority of Armenians live in this region |
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| Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia- culturally unique |
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| shatterbelt region, religion, languages, different villages, poverty, religious tension, small countries surrounded by large countries, politically influenced by Russia |
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| economic growth based on oil and gas experts, help western countries avoid instability of Middle East |
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| Central Asian mountainous |
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| Central Asian large areas of desert |
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| Central Asian economic activities |
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| Uzbekistan, 2nd largest cotton exporter, major exporter of labor |
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| Central Asian largest population |
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| Central Asian smallest population |
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| Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, ethnically diverse, Naryn and Kara Darya from Syr Darya river, Muslim, mass cotton cultivation important to the economy |
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| mountainous, landlocked, Persian speaking Tajik group, civil war after independence |
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| after independence, 1991-1997, led to vast ethnic unmixing, country experienced internal conflict between the Popular Front vs. Islamic-Democratic Opposition |
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