yeah I would say maybe the baltics had it good but the rest of former republics had a hard time. Armenia and Azerbaijan had a war, Tajikistan was engulfed in a civil war. Most countries didn't have any real gdp growth till mid 2000s.
Central Asia has the same oligarchy as you would picture in Russia and probably much worse. All dictators only changing after the previous dies.
Central Asia has the same oligarchy as you would picture in Russia and probably much worse. All dictators only changing after the previous dies.