Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
And I guess the same goes for the other 13 former soviet republics, right? That's an amazingly wrong attitude, you should fix it! It's the artificially created states like the USSR, Checzho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia etc. that is to be considered "the joke". Luckily, most of those are history now. And I don't get you folks, you live in the biggest country in the world and still look for expansion, WHAT FOR???
You guess wrong. This is right only for Belarus, the south-eastern part of Ukraine and the northern part of Kazakhstan wich are historically and mentally our compatriots. And yes, North Caucasus, including Chechnya is considered aliens. You are right about USSR was artificially created. All tensions between former USSR republics happen because of artificially drawn borders by Lenin and Stalin.