Sakha, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Tatarstan are some of the areas that could become new countries ... being financed partially with Russia’s own assets that were frozen in international banks ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

The think tank noted that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—three Baltic countries making up a chunk of NATO's eastern flank on the Russian border—were part of both the former USSR and the Russian ...

According to a review, only about a dozen countries were left off the list ... most strikingly, Russia and its most closely aligned former Soviet republic, Belarus. Why was Russia left off?

Others were stuck with the old Soviet systems or fell into conflict. So, what exactly happened to these nations after they broke free from soviet rule? Let’s discover more. The Soviet Union ...