GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Eurasian Economic Space, Eurasian Economic Union, Baltic States
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Geog 1700 - lecture 21 - part 9. Russia and its european near abroad: environmental regions, population regions, cultural regions, political regions, economic and social regions. Russia feels that ukraine is its special interest, with long historical ties. Dissatisfaction with the economy led to ukrainian unrest, and an excuse for russia to send troops into. Moldova lost transdniester (transnistria) under similar circumstances in 1992. (new map, 2014: environmental regions. European plain, caucasus and urals, north-flowing rivers. Major cities - moscow, st. petersburg, kiev population redistribution was an important policy in ussr. Ct is 279/sq km, us is 36. 9/sq km. Moscow is the political and economic center. The countries in the region are faced with population declines, except in azerbaijan* socioeconomic problems seem to be the cause; low birth rates, high suicide rates. There is general dissatisfaction with the change that occurred in russia in the aftermath of the collapse of the ussr. Russian life expectancy was declining recent upswing.
