Just six weeks after USSR's dissolution, on February 7, 1992, Maastricht Treaty was signed, laying the foundations for the establishment of the euro and European Union.. The dissolution of Soviet Union December 1991 confirmed the warnings made by Leon Trotsky nearly sixty years..…

European corporatist model owed good deal of its appeal for employers to their fear of the example of Soviet Union and the postwar strength of homegrown communists. ..…

In fact, having icons is among the few indicators of religiosity on which Central and Eastern European Orthodox Christians surpass Orthodox Ethiopians in surveys. Across 14 countries in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere in Europe with large Orthodox populations, the median share..…

Some former Soviet republics lean toward Russia, others toward European Union . In the former Soviet republics, opinions vary over whether their countries should ally more closely with the European Union or with Russia. ..…

While people across the region are somewhat less likely to express belief God the gap is small between these two highly religious regions and part of the world that was under the influence of the officially Soviet Union.. In many Central and Eastern European countries, heaven,..…

This sentiment prevails even in Orthodox-majority countries surveyed that are members of European Union Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. But pro- Russia sentiment tends to run in former Soviet republics that have Orthodox majorities and are not in EU, including Armenia, Belarus and..…

Iraq and Syria is global, 000 individuals have arrived from European countries and some 4,700 from former Soviet Union states to fight for Daesh. ..…

DellaPergola estimates that there were 3.4 Jews in European portions of Soviet Union as of 1939. ..…

The problem was that, in his reluctance to make allowances for what he perceived as the colonial ambitions of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, Roosevelt avoided any binding agreement with regard to the Eastern European countries. ... The US offered the Marshall Plan to the..…

The conquest of Soviet Union meant control of most of European lands which lay between Germany and USSR, and Soviet Belarus, Soviet Ukraine, and western Soviet Russia.. ..…

That is how the Coal and Steel Community was gradually transformed into the European Union, step by step. . ... When the Soviet empire started to disintegrate, Germany’s leaders realized that reunification was possible only in the context of a more united Europe and they were..…

As result, America has lost Russia as partner and America has created in Transatlantic Partnership by sanctioning Moscow and imposing tariffs on Beijing and European Union.. Russian- Chinese border is the in the world and,  unlike Russia's European border, there were no disputes over..…

European diplomats have described SPV similar to one used by Soviet Union during Cold War, to exchange Iranian oil for European goods without money changing hands... ..…