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 Either the..…

In the aftermath of the 1956 events in the Soviet sphere Hobsbawm championed Eurocommunism, seemingly a break with the “hard line” Communism of the postwar European parties, but his stance was always to struggle . the movement not to separate himself from it. ..…

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 of..…

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, hell,..…

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..…

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. ..…

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. ..…

Besides keeping Western Europe - scene of two devastating wars in the century - the process of EU expansion has played in ending dictatorships Greece, Spain and Portugal, in lifting Ireland out of poverty and in rooting nations of Soviet bloc firmly in West. The lure of European Union..…

Funny how none of these countries worried about America's death penalty or gun laws when they needed us - like during World War II or when we were helping protect Europe from Soviet menace through our NATO. The britches of Western European nations have grown in proportion to the decline..…

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

During Germany's of Caucasus and Crimea, Wehrmacht's initial efforts to Islamic, order to undermine Soviet Union, did have some success. The second reason is written across the vast history of colonial and European and American interventions Muslim territories, from the world wars to..…

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.. ..…

Russian- Chinese border is the in the world and,  unlike Russia's European border, there were no disputes over land when Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.. ..…

For America’s allies in Europe and Asia and elsewhere, even a flawed American world order was preferable to the alternative, and not just the Soviet alternative but the old European alternative. ..…

While writing ambitious histories of Russian Revolution and Bolshevik, Professor Pipes continued his campaign for policy toward Soviet Union in the late 1970s as member of the Committee on Present Danger and as director of Eastern European and Soviet affairs for President Reagan's..…

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... ..…