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December 2006 marks fifteen years since the demise of the USSR. The second world power turned into a ‘post-soviet space’, while its parts — former soviet republics — became independent sovereign states, a majority of which established a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).1
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Kobrinskaya, I. (2007). The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond. In: Malfliet, K., Verpoest, L., Vinokurov, E. (eds) The CIS, the EU and Russia. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210998_2
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