"It was really like taking over one of the former Soviet republics."

The organisation has members in all the former Soviet republics.

A similar solution was made for the former Soviet republics.

The $258 million purchase is the first for the former Soviet republic.

Other former Soviet republics will also be able to sign the agreement.

Still, countries taken by force in 1920 remained Soviet republics.

Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics.

Now, the worry is that the former Soviet republics might not return with their business.

That is not to say the former Soviet republics have been forgotten.

Most people in the former Soviet republics love to be photographed!

The other 14 Soviet republics wished to go their own ways, and they should.

The former Soviet republics have been left to cope with their problems themselves.

A similar strategy should be applied to the former Soviet republics.

Active follow-up with the former Soviet republics is now well in hand.

Nearly all of the 15 Soviet republics have taken similar steps toward autonomy.

The Soviet republics seem to be showing more sense, but the potential for conflict remains high.

The four former Soviet republics may not trust each other enough to assure such control themselves.

In the former Soviet republics, the organization has begun to provide other kinds of services.

Other than in the former Soviet republics, it is not celebrated much throughout the world.

Lithuania thus becomes the first of the 15 Soviet republics to do so.

Its members, former Soviet republics, asserted control of military forces on their soil.

The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992.

Trade, immigration, human rights, the environment and the future of the Soviet republics are global concerns.

Within months most of the Soviet republics would declare their independence.

Today, these three former Soviet republics bear a heavy burden of history.