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ND Minsk
Moscow
St Petersburg
Yerevan
Tbilisi
Baku Ashkabad
Dushanbe
Kiev
Kishinev
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ESTONIA
LATVIALITHUANIA
BELORUSSIA
UKRAINE
GEORGIA
ARMENIA
ROMANIA AZERBAIJAN
MOLDOVA TU
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KAZAKHSTAN
UZBEKISTAN
KYRGYSTAN
MONGOLIA
CHINA
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Tashkent
Alma AtaBishkek
SEA OFJAPAN
The Russian Federation and new states of the former Soviet Union, 1992
