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Did You Know? Governance

  • 33 new sovereign countries have been created since 1990, largely due to the dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia.  Other separatist states, like South Ossetia and Abkhazia, have declared independence, but the international community remains divided on their status. [19]

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