What are the ex-Soviet States like? What is Kazakhstan like?

>>77554710
they have a large swimming pool and export quite a lot of potassium

>>77554710
Surprisingly, they want to join Russia again

>>77554710
Central Asia:
Muslims who eat pork and drink vodka.
Turkmenistan is best Korea of Central Asia.
Kyrgyzstan is rediscovering Tengrism.
The few countries that everyone likes in /int/

>>77554710
>The Baltics
Decent and Estonia is developing well

>Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Armenia and Azerbaijan are poor and in dispute and Azerbaijan is a dictatorship and Georgia has break away nations and Russian problems

>Central Asia
Poor dictatorships but very secular for Muslims

>Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus
Ukraine is poor today and obviously has the Crimea issue and Belarus is Russia lite and larps like it's still an SSR. Moldova is very poor and has a breakaway state called Transnistria.

>>77554710
>What are the ex-Soviet States like?
poor shitholes, except estonia maybe (but even estonia is not as good as some people think)
>What is Kazakhstan like?
steppe muslim russia basically

Kazakhstan is best -stan. I believe their economy is boosted by an abundance of uranium and other natural resources