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Actually, you're wrong. Unless you don't count Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and some others as Post-Soviet countries. You could, eventually, be right about Ukraine and Belarus though.

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Indeed, there's a corruption problem in Latvia, but nothing like this. And it looks like it's improving rapidly as oligarchs are loosing power.

Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland were never Soviet countries.

The Soviet tanks were just sightseeing? They used to be called Satellites but under Communist Russian control all the same. Post WWII History 101.

It's like calling Canada just another state of USA.

It's an interesting metaphor, but factually incorrect and it matters in some important areas (for example, netflix selection:)

I'm not seeing a lot of U.S. tanks in Canada...

Canada, no; These countries, some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_...

They were part of what was sometimes called the "Soviet bloc" in that they were aligned with (i.e. controlled by) the Soviet Union but they were never part of the Soviet Union itself.

No, of course no. Not literally. They were Soviet satellite states. But it's a semantic dispute and we're missing the point, which is: the Post-Soviet countries (or post-communist countries - if we want to broaden the term and stay intact with the facts) are not necessarily bad places to make businesses.

Can you figure out what it depends on?

I.e. if we have a post-communist country, how do we guess whether we want to make business there?

Do you mean, if you're looking at it from 1990 and guessing? Or from today? Because I'd think all the standard factors for locating a new business apply, today.

I mean finding the reasons why different countries are good or bad for making business.

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