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1. USSR annexed this area from Czechoslovakia in 1945 and added it to the Ukrainian SSR. Which area was it?
2. USSR was a founding member of the UN in 1945. Along with the USSR, three Soviet republics were founding members as well. Which republics were they?
3. Ethnic Russians claimed this Moldovan region in the early 1990s and still control it.
4. Konstantin Päts overthrew parliamentary democracy in a quasi-fascist coup in 1934 in this country?
5. Democracy was overthrown and an autocratic regime under Karlis Ulmanis was established in this country in 1934.
6. Democracy was overthrown in an authoritarian coup led by Antanas Smetona in 1926 in this country?
7. A civil war in Georgia in 1993-94 and 1998-2000 concerned this area?
8. A war between Armenia and Azerbaijan which ended in 1994 resulted in Armenian occupation of more than 1/5 of Azerbaijan, including most of the autonomous region ___________?
9. This region of Azerbaijan is an enclave bordering Armenia, Iran and Turkey.
10. The present capital of this country was taken by Russia in 1865-67 and made the capital of Governor-Generalship of Turkestan.
11. The northern part of this country came under tsarist Russian rule in the 1860s, while the south was annexed by the Emirate of Bukhara, later to be a Russian protectorate.
12. The capital of Kazakhstan was moved from Almaty (Alma-Ata) to which newly built city in 1998?
13. Almost 1/3 of the population in this country migrated temporarily to China after Russian suppression of a rebellion in Central Asia in 1916-17.
14. The Lenin Kara-Kum Canal (built 1960-67) led to dramatic expansion of cotton production in this country.
15. In 1940 USSR seized the northern part of this region from Romania and added it to the Ukrainian SSR. What region was it?
16. This former region in south east Europe bordering the Black Sea and situated between the Prut and Dniester rivers is now divided between Moldova (main part) and Ukraine.
17. In Russia (as in several other former USSR republics) several cities have changed names after the dissolution of the USSR. In Russia for example Leningrad became St.Petersburg, Gorky became Nizhniy Novgorod, Kuibyshev became Samara, Kalinin became Tver, Sverdlovsk became Yekaterinburg. What is the new name of Kirov?
18. In Ukraine several cities have also changed names. For example Lvov became Lviv, Zhdanov became Mariupol. But what is the new name of Voroshilovgrad?
19. As of 2003 what is the largest city in the former USSR republics outside the Russian Federation and Ukraine?
20. In 2003 what was the most populated ex-USSR state after the Russian Federation and Ukraine?
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