Post-Soviet states

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian.

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and a population of 2.38 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre.

Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus. It sits on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It covers and has a population of around 245,000. Its capital and largest city is Sukhumi.

state in the South Caucasus

Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova. It controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldova–Ukraine border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. Transnistria is officially designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester () or as ("Left (Bank) of the Dniester").

regional organisation whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics

former de-facto state in South Caucasus from 1992 to 2024

economic organization of northern and central Asian and eastern European countries

intergovernmental military alliance among post-Soviet states

government in exile of Chechnya since 2000. Based in London

states established following the disestablishment of the Soviet Union

Russian historical and civil rights society

top-level political division of the Soviet Union

currency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; briefly used by post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union

1989–1995 self-proclaimed political entity in Eastern Europe

sudden release of price and currency controls

business magnate of great political influence

process of allocating national administrative-territorial units

TV channel in CIS and Baltic region

states established following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as seen from a Russian perspective

short-lived self-proclaimed political entity in the Caucasus

1992 US Navy humanitarian mission

legal continuity of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania under international law

thumb|Belarusian Honor Guard carrying the national flags of Belarus and the Soviet Union, as well as the Soviet victory banner, in Minsk, 2019.

Consultative parliamentary body

legislature of Uzbekistan (1991–1994)

part of the Orthodox Slavic ethnic group in the territory of the former USSR