Post-Soviet Armenia has embraced trade, made legal reforms, privatized state-owned enterprises and slashed inflation to 2.9% since joining the World Trade Organization in 2003.

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The Kremlin has been extending loans to former Soviet republics like Armenia and Belarus for Russian-made reactors.

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It includes big problematic cases such as Turkey and Ukraine and even in another optimistic couple of decades four other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan (the last, maybe, one day, on Turkey's coat-tails).

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