"Russian rock songwriting at its best has been very specific to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, " said Peter Varshavsky, who heads the San Francisco-based label Porto Franco Records and has represented Russian rock bands.
Russian inflation is at or near its post-Soviet low, and interest rates are also near post-Soviet lows.
An immigrant to the U.S. from the Soviet Union who graduated from Harvard University, Blavatnik built much of his fortune by investing in post-Soviet oil and metals companies.
He supported Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president, and was an early backer of Putin.
If reforms fail in Georgia, the nearest post-Soviet success story will be on the Baltic.
If this happens, it would make him the first post-Soviet Central Asian president to leave voluntarily.
Post-Soviet Balts face problems with corruption as deep as those of any Mediterranean country.
Azerbaijan, their neighbour to the west, has had a different passage into the post-Soviet era.
Russia's presence in the Russian-speaking city is also a symbol of wider influence across the post-Soviet space.
Russia allowed foreign companies into its energy sector to help it with extraction technology in the post-Soviet era.
After marrying his college sweetheart Pham decided to remain abroad to try to take advantage of post-Soviet opportunities.
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Several are owned by post-Soviet oligarchs or carpetbagging Americans, and some are burdened with perilous levels of debt.
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Well, according to Vedemosti, it has now hit a post-Soviet record low.
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Yet unless Ukraine does better, it will stay trapped in the post-Soviet space.
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He says his Anti-Crisis Settlement and Accounting Centre (ASAC) is more advanced than the rudimentary barter trades so common in post-Soviet markets.
Nothing at all to do with increasing scarcity in the grand sense, just a recovery of prices from their post-Soviet low.
Regional tensions have been further exacerbated by the different ways the various Central Asian countries have dealt with the post-Soviet transition.
First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.
It shows that large majorities of people in most post-Soviet states prefer a closer relationship with Russia than with the United States.
In the Russian-speaking regions, the post-Soviet generation is quite flexible, especially students.
Yegor Gaidar is described as the main architect of Russia's post-Soviet reforms.
"Ostalgia, " in 2011, mixed younger artists with older to render a compelling portrait of post-Soviet art from the edges of modern Europe.
These efforts appear to center around opposition figure Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian billionaire who made his fortune in the chaos of post-Soviet Russia.
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Migrants from the republics of the north Caucasus and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia have also spread more conservative interpretations of Islam.
And scientists disagree about the long-term damage, thanks partly to the post-Soviet shortage of funding for the huge task of monitoring the lake.
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It no longer idolises America, or sees itself as part of a messianic consolidation of freedom, justice and prosperity in the post-Soviet neighbourhood.
Around 20% of the population was living below the poverty line at the height of the first post-Soviet financial crisis in 1998 and 1999.
But pushing through a tax reform and collecting the taxes already owed are tasks that have proved too big for all previous post-Soviet governments.
Russia, which has more than a million soldiers under arms, has been increasing its defense budget from the lows of the immediate post-Soviet era.
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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