Former soviet Republics Owe Russia $2 T

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Former soviet Republics Owe Russia $2 T

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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/354/16424_ussr.html

...Former Soviet Union republics owe $2 trillion to Russia
11/07/2005 17:43
Where would all those countries be without the "Soviet occupation?" Obviously nowhere

Several republics of the former Soviet Union calculate the damage, which they suffered from the so-called "Soviet occupation." Deputies of the Russian Federation parliament asked specialists of the Auditing Chamber to give their financial estimations of to how much money Russia could claim from the members of the former USSR in return.

State Duma deputy, Viktor Alksnis, said that auditors could receive the information regarding the share of the three Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in the foreign debt of the USSR - $3.06 billion. The property of the Soviet Army, which was left in those countries, is evaluated in the sum of 32.2 billion rubles (according to the price level of 1991). In addition, Russia had to spend five billion rubles more on the deployment of military units which had been withdrawn from the above-mentioned states. It is worthy of note that the cost of the Russian ruble was equal to the cost of the US dollar in 1991. ...

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