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).

to which the USSR made the decisive contribution. Many of these countries were liberated by the Red Army at a cost of huge casualties," he noted. "Frivolous treatment or deliberate distortion of ...

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 ...

The Baltic countries, which are all NATO members ... Sixteen power lines that used to connect the three Baltic states with Russia and Belarus were dismantled over the years as a new grid linking ...

Progress during 1997 and early 1998, in light of these plans, some but not all of which were incorporated into IMF programs, is discussed in Appendix I. This paper has two purposes--to review briefly ...