The republics then all became independent states, with the post-Soviet governments in most cases consisting largely of the government personnel of the former Soviet republics.

Fourth part : the author then criticises the post-soviet government for disregarding that technology or field (e.g.: Modern Russia and the First Chechen War)

The violence highlighted anew the challenges faced by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who came to power this year after the ouster of a post-Soviet government.

Prime Minister Mart Laar resigned, forcing Estonia's longest serving post-Soviet government to step down in a dispute within the three-party governing coalition over the pace of reforms.

Technical term for body of the Soviet and post-Soviet governments (see Apparatchik)

It also demonstrated a continued area of collaboration between the West and a centralized post-Soviet government in a region where relations have been strained by the slow pace of political and economic changes.

If the West monitors the work of these commissions, none of the post-Soviet governments that are now desperately pursuing Western aid will tell us to mind our own business.

Shalabi, like Azzam, wanted the money to go to the Afghanis struggling to build a post-Soviet government in Kabul.

Citizens of the Soviet Union could file complaints and receive redress through the Communist Party, but the post-Soviet government had not developed systems of state recourse.