oblasts

The listing of the results seems to be in simple alphabetical order - and, even in the English language, I do not know enough about Ukraine's "oblasts" (regions), to know if there is an East-West divide/loyalty.

Army Rumour Service 2010

The listing of the results seems to be in simple alphabetical order - and, even in the English language, I do not know enough about Ukraine's "oblasts" (regions), to know if there is an East-West divide/loyalty.

Army Rumour Service 2010

The listing of the results seems to be in simple alphabetical order - and, even in the English language, I do not know enough about Ukraine's "oblasts" (regions), to know if there is an East-West divide/loyalty.

Army Rumour Service 2010

The listing of the results seems to be in simple alphabetical order - and, even in the English language, I do not know enough about Ukraine's "oblasts" (regions), to know if there is an East-West divide/loyalty.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Two years later, what was left of the Mountain Republic was divided into the North Ossetian and Ingush autonomous oblasts.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

First, there were forty-nine oblasts, or provinces, and six krays, or territories—categories that in practice had the same status and rights.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The two federal cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg had the same status as oblasts and krays.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Jealous of their ethnic neighbors, homogeneously Slavic oblasts joined the struggle for decentralized power.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

To the nationalist writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, they were “a form of direct capitulation by the center before the autonomies and a violation of the rights of the remaining oblasts of russia.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Then in 1934 the Chechen and Ingush autonomous oblasts were joined in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Oblast, which was raised to the status of an autonomous Republic in 1936.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011