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Parent topics
Commonwealth of Independent States: Regional organization, founded in 1991 by Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics. [e]
Country: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]- Europe: Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km2; pop. 720,000,000 [e]
Subtopics
- Babrujsk: City in central Belarus. [e]
- Belarussian language: Slavic language mainly spoken in Belarus. [e]
- Brest, Belarus: City in western Belarus. [e]
- Chernobyl Disaster: A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, in 1986, considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale. [e]
- Cryptography controversy: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. [e]
- Homiel, Belarus: A city with nearly a half million inhabitants in eastern Belarus. [e]
- Hrodna: City in western Belarus. [e]
- Latvia: Small republic (population c. 2.3 million; capital Riga) on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; lies between Estonia and Lithuania, with Russian Federation and Belorussia to the east. [e]
- Lithuania: Former Soviet republic (population c. 3.6 million; capital Vilnius) bordered by Latvia, Belorussia, Poland and the Russian Federation, and with a short coastline on the Baltic Sea. [e]
- Mahiloŭ: City in eastern Belarus. [e]
- Minsk: The capital of Belarus. [e]
- Poland: Central European republic (population c. 38.5 million; capital Warsaw) extending from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Tatry Mountains on its southern borders with the Czech Republic and Slovakia; also borders Germany to the west, the Russian Federation and Lithuania to the north-east, and Belorussia and Ukraine to the east. [e]
- Russian language: Widely-used member of the Slavic languages, written in the Cyrillic alphabet and spoken across Eurasia. [e]
- Russia: A country in northern Eurasia, with an area of 17 million km², currently the largest on our planet. [e]
- Soviet Union: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation [e]
- U.S. government training of foreign police: Add brief definition or description
- Ukraine: A large Slavic nation in Eastern Europe whose capital is Kyiv (Kiev). [e]
- Viciebsk: City in northeastern Belarus. [e]
- Zaza Pachulia: A former professional basketball player from Georgia (country) who was active in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2003 to 2019 [e]
- Operation Rankin [r]: A set of contingency plans for the Western Allies in Europe in World War II, to deal with a sudden German withdrawal or collapse before the scheduled invasion of Normandy [e]
- Reagan Doctrine [r]: An aggressive U.S. foreign policy in 1981-87 in the second term od President Ronald Reagan designed to weaken the Soviet Union by targeting the overthrow of its weak allies in the Third World. [e]