After a war in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the region’s majority Armenian population sought to secede from the newly independent country of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was hotly contested by the two former Soviet republics.

Source: https://thenewtoday.gd/defeated-by-force-he-announced-the-dissolution-of-nagorno-karabakh/

“But now, everyone, including the ruling elite in republics and regions, can see that Moscow neither has the money nor a strong army.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/17/the-west-is-preparing-for-russias-disintegration/

China doesn’t have that sort of chess tradition as compared to the USSR, and now Russia, and some other former Soviet republics like Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/ian-nepomniachtchi-made-it-clear-by-the-8th-move-he-was-playing-impotent-and-unambitious-position/

Increasingly, Gorbachev was being pulled in two different directions by democrats who wanted even greater freedoms and autonomy for the republics and conservatives who wanted to end the reforms that they believed were breaking the union apart.

Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2023/12/end-of-soviet-union-and-legacy-of.html

Its constitutional rule under the first, second and third republics were curtailed by military interventions.

Source: https://www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh/on-the-occasion-of-30th-anniversary-lets-work-to-protect-our-democracy-pres-tasks-nation/

Lord Soames added: “If they want to become republics then that is a matter for them.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1762253/King-Charles-epitome-of-an-unfair-society-for-Gen-Z-historian-tells-BBC-s-Panorama

Many of these republics lasted centuries, from around 600 BCE to 300 CE, although medieval Hinduism became with hereditary, godlike kingship.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/is-india-the-mother-of-democracies/

Russia as well as the other former Soviet republics use Russian gauge, a carryover from the Russian Empire.

Source: https://jalopnik.com/north-korea-s-weird-bulletproof-state-train-makes-first-1850829605

Russia’s regions are currently providing direct assistance to the cities, districts and villages in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

Source: https://americanfreepress.net/russian-presidential-address-to-federal-assembly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russian-presidential-address-to-federal-assembly

The fighting ended with a ceasefire formally codified by the three political entities: Armenians of the Autonomous Republic of Karabakh, and the leadership of the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-13/armenia-azerbaijan-blockade-russia-ukraine-war

The lack of imports from EU countries resulted in an increase in imports through third countries, including former Soviet republics, as well as Turkey.

Source: https://worldcrunch.com/focus/putin-military-investigation

What is Kazakhstan, other Central Asian republics, China, which trades with the European Union via Belarus, guilty of?” the head of state wondered.

Source: https://eng.belta.by/president/view/insights-in-live-broadcast-nuclear-shield-six-sovereignty-conditions-in-peoples-presidents-week-157815-2023/

“When the oil money arrived, we abandoned the taxes that had been in place since the first and second republics.

Source: https://247ureports.com/2023/01/after-30-years-well-be-relocating-to-new-govt-house-soon-gov-soludo/