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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by baybal2 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:47PM (#27257939)
Soviet influence it is. Lukasenko was a party boss in USSR

Putin was KGB mafia boy.

Kravcuk, and Kucma were party bosses of state enterprises.

Aliyevs were KGB men

Shevardnaze was USSR's foreign minister

The whole of Central Asia is basically ruled by exactly the same Moscow's satraps since late eighties, with exception of wild tempered Kyrgyzstan.

Mongolia, "the 16th republic," also had communist comeback, only ended by an extreme, Norko style economic collapse.

The only country of ex-USSR where CPSU did not recapture the power outside of Baltics was Armenia, but only thanks to power going to their nazis. A medicine worse than the poison.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by reducesuffering on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:56PM (#27259396)
> The only country of ex-USSR where CPSU did not recapture the power outside of Baltics was Armenia

And Georgia

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by baybal2 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:03PM (#27259431)
It was, Shevardnadze ruled for 8 years.
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by reducesuffering on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:59PM (#27269629)
Which ended in 2003. I'd argue that CPSU, since 1991, has had much less internal influence in Georgia than Armenia, which is still heavily Russian-aligned. Georgia is trying to join NATO...
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