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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Airlines operating in former Soviet republics initially had a patchy safety record in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this has improved in recent years.

由于前苏联解体，在前苏联运营的航空公司开始只零零碎碎地进行飞行安全记录，但这一情况近年来得到了改善。

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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.

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After the 14 non-Russian republics of the old Soviet Union went their ways, Russia was left with more than a score of autonomous ethnically named regions and republics.

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