Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Caucasus: Georgia, ...
and the other countries of the former Soviet Union, 14 had adopted IMF-supported programs, with cumulative commitments close to SDR 20 billion--the equivalent of about $28 billion (Appendix, Table 1).
By the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was reforming the Soviet Union as they faced economic problems and individual countries were demanding independence. In 1991 the Soviet Union split up and the Cold ...