• It achieved independence from the Soviet Union in August 31, 1991. (llrx.com)
  • It is an identity struggle that has plagued Ukraine since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (aljazeera.com)
  • Independent for three years (1918-1921) following the Russian revolution, it was forcibly incorporated into the USSR until the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. (gopeople.org)
  • Aleksandr Nekrich, the late Harvard lecturer on Soviet history, smuggled a book-length manuscript on the deportations, and one woman's recollection was recorded in a Human Rights Watch report from 1991. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Since the country became independent in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union, its population has dropped by almost 8 million people to around 44 million. (nbcnews.com)
  • During the process of the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the Moldavian and Ukrainian SSRs proclaimed their independence in 1991, becoming the modern states of Moldova and Ukraine while preserving the existing partition of Bessarabia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 1926 census, like all censuses even in far more efficient conditions, cannot be totally accurate, and Soviet and Western estimates agree that it is too low by 1.2-1.5 million, 1 (about 800,000 of it attributed to the Ukraine). (ditext.com)
  • The only official facts concerning the population of the Bezhtas are recorded under the name of Kapuchas in the 1926 census data. (eki.ee)
  • In the midst of the Second World War , Lithuania was first occupied by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany . (owiki.org)
  • Man-made famines in the 1930s due to Soviet collectivisation efforts reduced the Crimean Tatar population, and in May 1944, immediately after reclaiming Crimea from Axis powers, Stalin accused the entire group of collaborating with Nazi Germany. (middleeasteye.net)
  • In 1940, after securing the assent of Nazi Germany through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , the Soviet Union pressured Romania, under threat of war, [3] into withdrawing from Bessarabia, allowing the Red Army to enter and the Soviet Union to annex the region . (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin noted the Soviet population wasn't growing fast enough to build his workers' paradise quickly enough. (heartland.org)
  • After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Lviv became part of the Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the 2001 census - the only such survey carried out since the fall of the Soviet Union - 57 percent of people in the Donetsk region identified as Ukrainian and 38 percent as Russian. (aljazeera.com)
  • We want to live in Ukraine, not Russia, but we want the Ukraine we had in the Soviet Union," said Dzyubinskiy. (aljazeera.com)
  • Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart, Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. (wikiquote.org)
  • Among the former republics of the Soviet Union, it had one of the highest standards of living. (traveldocs.com)
  • DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, April 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has completed a two-day workshop on the prevention of statelessness in Central Asia, where the dissolution of the Soviet Union and civil conflict have left thousands of people without a determined nationality. (unhcr.org)
  • The workshop, held in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on Tuesday and Wednesday under the European Union-funded project, "Institutional and Capacity Building Activities to Strengthen the Asylum System in Central Asia", gathered 33 government and non-governmental officials as well as UNHCR staff from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. (unhcr.org)
  • This is an important event for the countries of the former Soviet Union and the region," said Gulchehra Sharipova, Tajikistan's First Deputy Minister of Justice who opened the workshop. (unhcr.org)
  • The May Cohn Russia and Soviet Union Collection (Vilna Archives) includes materials dealing with a wide range of topics mostly pertaining to Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and to a smaller extent to everyday life of ordinary Russian citizens. (cjh.org)
  • Materials collected here shed light on the way Jewish religious and civil life was administered in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. (cjh.org)
  • Most Western commentators during Soviet times probably knew little about life in the various union-republics which constituted the USSR, though there might have been awareness that the strongest anti-Russian sentiment was to be found amongst the three Baltic peoples (Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians) and the Transcaucasian Georgians. (abkhazworld.com)
  • It is an official language in 9 States and 3 Union Territories and an additional official language in 3 other States. (thelistacademy.com)
  • Under the Soviet Union , Adjara was part of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic as the Adjarian ASSR . (spiceroentge746.cfd)
  • As World War II neared its end and the Germans retreated, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania . (owiki.org)
  • On 11 March 1990, a year before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union , Lithuania became the first Baltic state to declare itself independent, resulting in the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania . (owiki.org)
  • [2] However, the legality of these acts was disputed, most prominently by the Soviet Union , which regarded the area as a territory occupied by Romania. (wikipedia.org)
  • The area was formally integrated into the Soviet Union: the core joined parts of the Moldavian ASSR to form the Moldavian SSR , while territories inhabited by Slavic majorities in the north and the south of Bessarabia were transferred to the Ukrainian SSR . (wikipedia.org)
  • Axis -aligned Romania recaptured the region in 1941 with the success of Operation München during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union , but lost it in 1944 as the tide of war turned. (wikipedia.org)
  • Operating throughout the former Soviet Union, Hydra Market has become the largest darknet market in the world. (darkfox-onion-darkweb.com)
  • Armenian officials are not skeptical that they can rely on its protection even as fears of escalation mount. (cepa.org)
  • After the Persian Empire ceded this part of the Caucasus to Russia in the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, the first census ten years later identified Nagorno-Karabakh's population as 91% Armenian. (commondreams.org)
  • In 1988, responding to mass protests, the local parliament in Nagorno-Karabakh voted by 110-17 to request its transfer from the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR, but the Soviet government rejected the request and inter-ethnic violence escalated. (commondreams.org)
  • In 2007, the Minsk Group met with Armenian and Azerbaijani officials in Madrid and proposed a framework for a political solution, known as the Madrid Principles . (commondreams.org)
  • Meanwhile, capital gains are lightly taxed, and the country has become successful as a capital flight and tax avoidance haven for Russians and other post-Soviet kleptocrats that has permitted Latvia to "afford" de-industrialization, depopulation and de-socialization. (michael-hudson.com)
  • While the 1995 census indicated that ethnic Russians comprised almost 7 percent of the population, subsequent emigration to Russia and elsewhere is continuing to reduce this proportion. (thearda.com)
  • The greater part of the once-predominant Polish population was sent to Poland during a population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine in 1944-46. (wikipedia.org)
  • The four minorities represent tiny portions of Armenia's official population of slightly over 3 million. (eurasianet.org)
  • The urban population is 34%, while the rural population is 65% (1999 census). (llrx.com)
  • We need only apply to the population given in the Soviet census of 1926, the natural growth rate of the years which followed, and compare the result we obtain with that of an actual post-1933 census. (ditext.com)
  • All the same, it is worth noting that even if the official 1939 figures are accepted, they show a huge population deficit, if not as large as the reality. (ditext.com)
  • However, in a source not then available to me, today's leading Soviet scholar of the collectivization states the population deficit in January 1937 as 15-16 million (V.P. Danilov in Arkheograficheski Ezhegodnik za 1968 god , Moscow, 1970, p 249). (ditext.com)
  • But the third generation of census takers reported enough population growth to keep Stalin happy-and keep their own lives in the process. (heartland.org)
  • And how would shooting the census takers cause population growth … unless it is presumed they were incompetent slackers who would do their job only under threat of dire punishment? (heartland.org)
  • Other sources of information include population census and birth registration. (unhcr.org)
  • According to the Government's most recent census (1995), ethnic Turkmen constitute 77 percent of the population. (thearda.com)
  • According to a census of 1897, 75% of the population of the Russian empire did not have surnames. (justrussian.com)
  • It was only long after the revolution of 1917, in Soviet times, that a hundred percent of the population got official surnames and passports. (justrussian.com)
  • According to the last Census (May 2011), registered population in 2011 is 9,903,268 persons. (red-network.eu)
  • Eurostat, Population at 1st January 2012 , http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tps00001&plugin=1 , Accessed on 23.2.2013. (red-network.eu)
  • This is almost half of a 2020 electronic census population estimate of 37.3 million. (nysun.com)
  • The Current Population Survey is a survey conducted by the Census Bureau of the civilian noninstitutionalized population primarily for labor force participation data. (cdc.gov)
  • It was a huge irony that, in adopting this stance, the West was effectively enshrining the divisions created for his fiefdom by none other than the Soviet dictator Iosep Besarionis-dze Dzhughashvili, a Georgian known to the wider world as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. (abkhazworld.com)
  • Many people still live in the rural areas with old Soviet passports issued in 1974," he said. (unhcr.org)
  • Many experts agree that official restrictions on religious freedom, a holdover from the Soviet era, reflect the Government's concern that liberal religious policies could lead to political dissent, importing of uncensored "Western" ideas, and the emergence of extreme political interpretations. (state.gov)
  • a census taker's life literally depended on keeping the dictator happy. (heartland.org)
  • Kuchma never fulfilled his election pledge, but in a December 2001 interview in "Trud" he reiterated his belief that Russian should not be defined as a "foreign" language in Ukraine and should therefore have "official" status. (infoukes.com)
  • In November 2001, the Social Democratic Party (United) (SDPU-O) introduced a new draft "Law on Languages" to replace the 1989 law that included a provision making Russian an "official language. (infoukes.com)
  • While there are no official statistics as no census has been conducted since 2001, it is estimated that as many as one in 15 Ukrainian citizens is working abroad at any given time. (nbcnews.com)
  • Throughout the Soviet period, Azeris comprised Armenia's largest ethnic minority, with over 160,000 members, according to the 1979 census. (eurasianet.org)
  • Multiculturalism is the official policy that countries adopt to legally protect racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. (ritimo.org)
  • Everyone here said it was bad luck when the USSR collapsed," said Dzyubinskiy, 63, a veteran of the Soviet army and Afghan war. (aljazeera.com)
  • After the collapse of USSR and the tearing up of economic ties with the former Soviet republics and the Socialist Bloc countries, the production of many firms became obsolete. (booksandideas.net)
  • Another census was taken in January 1939, the only one in the period whose results were published, but in the circumstances it has always failed to carry much conviction. (ditext.com)
  • Armenia is the most ethnically homogeneous of all the post-Soviet states. (eurasianet.org)
  • Armenia is a middle-income post-Soviet country with an officially high vaccination coverage. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Moldova is the country known in the world as one of the poorest ex-Soviet states, like Armenia and Georgia. (ritimo.org)
  • In the mid-1990s, Western scholars, journalists, and intelligence agencies tended to divide Ukraine into two roughly equal linguistic groups based on daily language use, rather than on professed "native language" as registered in the Soviet census. (infoukes.com)
  • Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin and Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov have similarly called for making Russian an "official language," a move that would simply institutionalize a situation that already de facto exists. (infoukes.com)
  • But Our Ukraine, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, and the proKuchma For a United Ukraine oppose making Russian an "official" or state language. (infoukes.com)
  • Donetsk region, Ukraine - Valeriy Dzyubinskiy opens a glass cabinet in his apartment, pulls out a collection of Soviet rouble notes he has kept for more than 30 years, and lists what they could once buy. (aljazeera.com)
  • However, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was too much for many CSTO member states, all of whom have a recent memory of Soviet occupation. (cepa.org)
  • With snow forecast to fall throughout Ukraine this weekend, Russia's missile attacks against electricity infrastructure are designed to render Ukraine uninhabitable this winter, Ukrainian officials charge. (nysun.com)
  • Inside Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky said local officials are setting up over 4,000 "invincibility centers" around Ukraine to provide electricity, heat, water, internet, mobile phone connections and a pharmacy, free of charge and around the clock. (nysun.com)
  • Muslim volunteers from Chechnya and former Soviet republics are known to have fought against Russian forces in Ukraine since the start of hostilities in 2014. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Upon being elected, Kuchma promised to make Russian an "official language" while keeping Ukrainian as the "state language. (infoukes.com)
  • This appears to be the latest in a string of Russian false-flag allegations, due to the alleged evidence's incorrect use of official Ukrainian terminology. (stackexchange.com)
  • Further, official Ukrainian documents refer to Crimea as "the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" or "AR Crimea," while materials allegedly found by Russia did not. (stackexchange.com)
  • Ukrainian energy officials suspect that behind the precision bombing is inside knowledge of the electricity network - either from defectors or from Russian engineers who built the system in the Soviet era. (nysun.com)
  • The region had suffered as a set of independent quasi-nation-states in the interwar period, prone to extremism and authoritarianism, and ultimately German or Soviet invasion, and then had suffered again under communism in the eastern Bloc. (eurozine.com)
  • The distinction between "state" and "official" is meaningless, however, even though Russian has been made an "official" language in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Moldova. (infoukes.com)
  • A two-day regional workshop in Dushanbe has gathered government and non-government officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to discuss the prevention of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons in the region. (unhcr.org)
  • According to official figures, there are at least 20,000 stateless people in Central Asia, including over 10,000 each in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, 194 in Tajikistan and an unknown number in Turkmenistan. (unhcr.org)
  • The materials in this collection constitute a semi-random sample of the pre-war archive that was transferred to the Central State Archives of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic following the liquidation of the Vilnius Jewish Museum in 1949. (cjh.org)
  • On December 17, 1941, the Romanian government issued a decree requiring a census of all those with 'Jewish blood. (ushmm.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • Prefatory Note The views and conclusions in this report are solely the author's and should not be interpreted as representing the official opinion or policy of the US Government. (cia.gov)
  • Increasingly, the story of the Soviet census-takers describes the relationship between America's doctors and America's government. (heartland.org)
  • Federal government officials have taken a "guilty until proven innocent" attitude toward doctors who prescribe pain medication they believe appropriate to address serious and long-lasting pain. (heartland.org)
  • They're simply fed up with the limits on their ability to treat patients appropriately, the paperwork, and the constant threat of legal action, including prison, if they deviate at all, even inadvertently, from the 130,000 pages of Medicare law (plus Official Government Regulations, plus contracted Insurance Carrier Policies). (heartland.org)
  • Restrictive government control, indigenous Islamic culture, and 70 years of Soviet rule have meant that traditional mosque-based Islam does not play a dominant role in society. (thearda.com)
  • Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with the English language. (thelistacademy.com)
  • However, the procedure was not clear and the implementation by government officials was not consistent. (state.gov)
  • Government officials outside the capital often interpreted the law more strictly than those in Ashgabat. (state.gov)
  • In the 1989 Soviet census one-third of Ukrainians listed Russian as their "native language. (infoukes.com)
  • The total, in the lower projections made over previous years by Soviet statisticians, and on the estimates of modern demographers, should have been about 177,300,000. (ditext.com)
  • The legal system of the Kyrgyz Republic was shaped and developed within the framework of the Soviet state law. (llrx.com)
  • Support for Russian as an "official" language also comes from the Greens, the Socialists, Yabluko, and Women for the Future. (infoukes.com)
  • Kyrgyz is the official language of the country, as well as Russian ( http://www.abyznewslinks.com/kyrgy.htm ). (llrx.com)
  • In Moscow, some officials accuse Kyiv of oppressing Russian speakers. (aljazeera.com)
  • During the Soviet era the biggest influence was Russian. (eki.ee)
  • But on the matter of the total of unnatural deaths between 1926 and 1937, the 1937 census totals are decisive, and these (though no other details of that census) have been referred to a few times in post-Stalin Soviet demographic publications. (ditext.com)
  • This publication contains summary tables of the official statistics for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable diseases in the United States for the year 1994. (cdc.gov)
  • However, a new nationwide census is currently underway, for the first time on over 20 years. (feminist.org)
  • Kim Minnullin, the cabinet official in charge of Tatarstan peoples language development, told 'Respublika Tatarstan' on 7 June that his department has finished developing the draft state program on introduction of Latin Tatar script over the next decade. (rferl.org)
  • There are no official data on minorities, but they are estimated between 300 to 500 thousand persons. (red-network.eu)
  • Eurostat, All valid permits by reason, length of validity and citizenship on 31 December of each year - annual data , http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=migr_resvalid&lang=en , Accessed on 23.2.2013. (red-network.eu)
  • Because the dates of onset and dates of diagnosis for notifiable diseases are often unknown, these surveillance data are presented by the week that they were reported to public health officials. (cdc.gov)
  • One should note that the Soviet industrial doctrine was heavily based on the economy of scale and massive cross -country ties. (booksandideas.net)
  • Moreover, each country has its own official language. (thelistacademy.com)
  • And any official language is spoken by a majority of people in any country. (thelistacademy.com)
  • The basic principles of the state structure of the Kyrgyz Republic are defined by the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic adopted on 12th session of the Supreme Soviet on May 5, 1993. (llrx.com)
  • The President of the Kyrgyz Republic is the head of the state, the supreme official and the head of the executive power in the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. (llrx.com)
  • Internal soviet borders had left Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan, whose fragile autonomy caused conflicts and tensions with the state authorities. (nationalia.info)
  • In February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Kazakh officials, as well as other Central Asian leaders, to discuss future cooperation between the U.S. and the region. (cepa.org)
  • A recent study by political scientist Lowell Barrington in the journal "Post-Soviet Affairs" found that 57 percent of Ukrainians base their identity upon citizenship, followed by ethnicity (34 percent), and only finally on language (13 percent). (infoukes.com)
  • Or is it simply a cruel experiment that cannot readily be emulated in larger countries un-traumatized by Soviet era memories of occupation? (michael-hudson.com)
  • However, Belarusian officials stated in late 2008 and early 2009 Belarus' interest in postponing the rise to EU prices until 2014-2015. (traveldocs.com)
  • Modern Standard Arabic is an official language of 26 states and 1 disputed territory, the third most after English and French. (thelistacademy.com)
  • The official language , Lithuanian , is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, the other being Latvian . (owiki.org)
  • The historical heart of the city, with its cobblestone streets and architectural assortment of Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-classicism and Art Nouveau, survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1947, the Soviet-Romanian border along the Prut was internationally recognised by the Paris Treaty that ended World War II . (wikipedia.org)
  • For official documents, if necessary, it was enough to mention the village a person was from, or the name of their lord, or the first name combined with profession/occupation. (justrussian.com)
  • Alliance for progress : official documents emanating from the Special Meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council at the Ministerial Level held in Punta del Este, Uruguay from August 5 to 17, 1961. (who.int)
  • The first part of the Civil Code of the Kyrgyz Republic came into force on May 8, 1996 replacing the previous Civil Code of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic dated 30.07.1964. (llrx.com)
  • Although the level of harassment continued to decrease for registered religious groups during the period covered by this report, most unregistered religious groups continued to experience official harassment similar to that in previous reporting periods, including detention, arrest, confiscation of religious literature and materials, pressure to abandon religious beliefs, and threats of eviction and job loss. (state.gov)
  • But in this book's first edition I took a conservative interpretation (and ignored, too, even higher projections by Soviet demographers of the period) and accepted a deficiency of no more than 13.5 million. (ditext.com)
  • But the convenience of an official established base figure, that of the census, is such that we shall (conservatively) ignore this in our calculations. (ditext.com)
  • Oddly enough, the Head of the Central Statistical Administration in Khrushchev's time, V.N. Starovsky, attributes Gosplan's 180.7 million to 1937, comparing it with the census figure of 164 million 'even after adjustment' 11 -- a phrase which implies significant upward inflation: an 'adjustment' of 5% would mean as a base figure the 156 million given to the Soviet scholar Anton Antonov-Ovseenko by a more junior official. (ditext.com)