This chapter summarizes the issues of emigration from the countries that formed the Commonwealth of Independent States immediately after the breakup of the USSR some 25 years ago, to non-CIS countries. It is based on various statistical sources from host countries and migration databases of ...
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was a somewhat unsuccessful effort by Russia to keep the USSR together in an economic alliance. It was formed in 1991 and included many of the independent republics that made up the USSR. In the years since its formation, the CIS has lost a few...
Significance of the Communist Bloc The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formed the Eastern Bloc during WWII. The Bloc was initially established to fight Nazi Germany. During WWII, the Allied leaders, Churchill (U.K.), Roosevelt (USA), and Stalin (USSR), met at the Yalta ...
Croatia is a small European country that borders with Slovenia, Hungary, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The city of Zagreb, the capital, is full of beautiful old Austro-Hungarian buildings you just can't get enough of. Shutterstock The country has a popul...
The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The Americans and British feared the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide. In 1949, the U.S., Canada and its Europe...
, formed in partnership with global marketing and communications services company wpp and the wharton school of the university of pennsylvania, are based on a study that surveyed nearly 17,000 global citizens to assess perceptions of 89 countries using 73 different attributes. learn more here . ...
scrutinize the effects of border, infrastructure, trade policies, and institutions, along with the main factors. Based on the estimation results, we concluded that the Eurasian countries during the analysis period were 35% less integrated with the world trade system than the predicted potential level...
, formed in partnership with global marketing and communications services company wpp and the wharton school of the university of pennsylvania, are based on a study that surveyed nearly 17,000 global citizens to assess perceptions of 89 countries using 73 different attributes. learn more here . ...
Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of STALI...
So, in the end, the answer to the question of how many countries there are in the world remains a question with many different possible answers. How Do New Countries Get Formed?With changes in political situations, such as the dissolution of the USSR, new countries can be formed. While ...