Map of the former Soviet Union Which countries were in the Soviet Union? The USSR was a socialist state formed after the Russian revolution in 1917.. It was initially a confederation of the states ...

Map of NATO countries NATO has 31 member countries, highlighted in dark blue, and is expected to have Sweden, in light blue, join the alliance. ... After the Soviet Union broke up, ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

"The Soviet Union has been split." The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remade the world map and upended global politics. Fifteen countries were produced, and power shifted across Europe and Asia.

When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, Russia lost a lot of its influence. Now Mr Putin appears intent on turning the clock back more than 30 years to the Soviet Union’s heyday.

Here are some major milestones in the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., which put 15 new countries on the map. How It Happened On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a sovereign state.

These are some of the newest countries on the map, with one of the newest only being established in 2011. ... like the Soviet Union being dissolved or Yugoslavia slowly losing territories.

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

In most eastern European countries, forests have expanded overall. Potapov's research shows how the end of the Soviet Union literally made the world more green – but at a substantial human cost ...