joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message news:<91884734.0411051117.2a32adbe_at_posting.google.com>...
> Now, let's go back in history and try to figure out what parts of what
> countries have been in Russia... :-)
To be Howardish (i.e. very precise or even punctual about technical
terms and naming) the only former part of Russia that is not Russia
today is Crimean Peninsula that was handed to Ukraine in the fifties.
Latvia was never a part of Russia, but of Soviet Union which was
theoretically the union of coequal republics in the similar way how
USA comprehends its states. Russia was only the one of the republics
with the same rights and position (again theoretically) as all others
(including Latvia).
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Received on Fri Dec 03 2004 - 05:27:09 CST
