The article, while disclaiming any intent to simply restore the Soviet Union, talks about the value of consolidating the former republics into something like the European Union.

该文一方面否认了单纯回归苏联的打算，一方面又谈到了将原苏维埃共和国合并为类似欧盟的组织的价值。

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Such rates of drug-resistant TB are an astounding five times greater than the global average. Almaty is not alone – not among some of the former republics of the Soviet Union.

如此惊人的耐药结核病发生率超出了全球平均水平的5倍，在一些前苏联加盟共和国中，阿拉木图的这一现象并不孤立存在。

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The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was the first time that the country nation had competed separately from the other republics of the Soviet Union.

1996年亚特兰大夏季奥运会是在脱离了苏联体后第一次以独立国的名义参加比赛。

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Also on 21 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to make the results of the March 17 referendum on the future of the Soviet Union binding on all 15 Union republics.

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It claims that Serbia's political elite had seen Yugoslavia as an extended Serbia and this is why Yugoslavia as a union of equal republics was destined to fail.

BBC: Press bids farewell to Yugoslavia

The sovereign republics parties to the Treaty, expressing the peoples' will to renew their union...have resolved to build their relations on new principles within a Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics.

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