Since the collapse of the Soviet Union...

[cullinane]

AFP. 29 November 2001. Millions of children in CIS, Central, Eastern
Europe in poverty: UNICEF.

GENEVA -- Nearly 18 million youngsters live in poverty in the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) 10 years after the shift from communist to market-led economies, a
UN report said on Thursday.

Rising numbers of children are ending up being cared for in institutions
as families struggle to cope, according to the report by the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF) entitled 'A Decade of Transition'.

[N.B.] It said that around 1.5 million children were in public care at
the end of the 1990s, or 150,000 more than at the start of the decade,
adding that the sharpest increase had occurred in the Baltic states.

As real incomes have fallen over the last decade, the number of children
in poor families has sharply increased.

At the end of the 1990s nearly 18 million children of up to 17 years of
age were living on less than 2.15 dollars a day.

Just under 60 million children and young people in the region were
living on less than 4.30 dollars a day, it added.

In addition, HIV/AIDS cases are rising, especially in Russia and
Ukraine, and tuberculosis has returned to the region with 50 percent
increases registered in poorer countries.

In many parts of the region, family allowances were markedly cut in the
1990s and the UNICEF report calls for a sustained effort to address
child poverty, including the support of family incomes via tax and
benefit systems and economic policy.

It also calls for regular and independent reporting on the quality of
institutional care, while insisting that support services need to be
beefed up and family-based care solutions encouraged.

A stronger focus is also needed on preventative health care, health
education and public health programmes, while it notes that public
investment in education in several countries is currently low.

[Kez]

One day there will be a new USSR, maybe not under that name, but there will be
it will be the start of the new international
from which all social injustices will be irradicated

glory to the revolution

comrade kamo

[Terminal Frost]

Its good to see there is still hope for a Utopia. In today's world it's often a fleeting dream, nice to see it's still alive in people's hearts and minds.

[Kez]

Does Anyone here believe that the CIS, will turn back into a slightly different new USSR, coz i fucking well hope so.
Russia and Belarus have united, and now have a single currnecy with others thinking of joining this union, such as Armenia, moldova whcih was part of the ussr, has no gone to the communist system of governing.

Glory to the Revolution
comrade kamo

[kingbee]

i hope they do reform- but i can never see that happening. most of them are just getting used to capitalism, and wont want to change. Most have always lived under soviet rule, and wont want to change. i think moldova is the poorest country in europe, so some might want to join there. many people in the east europe countries dont want to join nato- eg the girl in latvia who hit charles in the face was against the war, and against them joinin nato- maybe this is a good sign

[Freiheit]

in the ussr. the life standard hasnt changed. it is the same. but i dont think that they will make referendum, then the are too controlled by the americans now.

[Kez]

Freihat, your the most uneducated commie i have EVER met,
what the fuck are you on about the life standard hasnt changed, are you ignorant of the most blatant capitalist reforms and hence growing inequalities the world has ever seen?
Oh man, if you werent a "commie" i'd have sworn at you so many times u IDIOT!
there are places were 50% of thepeople are unemployed now, before there was full employment.
Before there was little, or no drugs, now drugs and aids are crippling society,
There was the greatest education system, and best health system, now they are to poor to pay teachers, and you say there is the same life standard?
people are spending all the money they have to buy leather jackets, materialism has taken over, whereas before there was much less of it.
I am speaking as someone whoes ethnic origin is from the former soviet Union.
Freiheit your an absolute idiot for thinking how you do.
think before u drivel.
read some books jackass

comrade kamo

[koba]

I agree with you kamo but maybe we should let Freiheit proove his statement .....

[DaNatural]

kamo i understand your point but lay off on the personal attacks u totally discredit what u say by attacking freiheit. shit man maybe he doesnt know as much as u, so wat u should be doing is educating not attack. shit i see why some people dont like left wingers, cus they think they know it all and have a chip on their shoulder, i suggest you calm down and argue properly otherwise u can have the greatest ideas and it wont mean shit. PEACE
Positive Energy Applied Correctly Elevates

[Fidel Castro Ruz]

i think Russia should take care of Pridnestrovje and Abkhazia