But he concedes that surliness endures, even among waiters and waitresses who grew up in the privatised, post-Soviet years.

但他承认，粗鲁的现象仍然存在，即便是在那些成长在苏联解体后的私营化年代的侍者之间也是如此。

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Yet for all the attendant hassles one might expect in the capital city of a modern post-Soviet petro-state, Baku and its denizens radiate an Old World warmth.

然而，所有到过巴库的人争辩说，在一个后苏联时代国家的首都，人们希望看到旧时代散发出来的温暖。

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For his part, Mr Yushchenko sees it as his mission to transform a post-Soviet country into a democratic European one.

对尤希奇恩克先生来说，他认为将乌克兰从一个前苏联国家转型为一个欧洲国家是他不可推卸的任务。

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He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

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(Speaking in Russian) Stelmakh says a look at school text books being published in Ukraine,the Baltics, and in other post-Soviet republics shows them to be attempts to distance those countries from Russia -- especially with regard to courses in national history.

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