Kazakhstan's greatest mineral resource.
What is oil?
Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan are known as this because of this mountain range.
What are the Caucasus?
Surrounded entirely by land.
What is landlocked?
Where Lithuania ranks, among the five nation-states, in terms of income per person.
What is first?
Over a year ago Russia invaded this country.
What is the Ukraine?
Kazakhstan faces this serious problem due to mismanagement by the Soviet Union.
What is environmental problems from pesticides, toxic waste
Azerbaijan has huge deposits of this mineral.
What is oil?

DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
According to the Freedom House, how free is the nation-state of Belarus? free, partly free, or not free?
Lithuania is a member of these two supranational groups.
What is the European Union and N.A.T.O.?
The type of government that the Soviet Union had.
What is a dictatorship?
Felix Dzerzhinsky was known by this fearsome nickname.
What is "Iron Felix?"
This many nation-states were formed out of the remains of the Soviet empire.
What is 15?
Belarus depends on this country for assistance.
What is Russia?
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are collectively known as this.
What are the Baltic States?
This former country once covered almost half of Europe and two-fifths of Asia.
What is the Soviet Union?
This is an independent state whose people share a common identity.
What is a nation-state?
Where Azerbaijan ranks (among the other nation-states) in reported crime.
What is first?
What is the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
Lithuania produces good crops, but are in short supply of these things.
What are fossil fuels and metals?

DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
An example of challenges facing Russia today.
This what people from Kazakhstan are called.
What are Kazakhs?
This is a huge problem for Azerbaijan's future.
What is ethnic warfare between the Azeris and Armenians?
Roughly translated, this is what Belarus means.
What is White Russian?
The year that Lithuania became a member of the European Union.
What is 2004?
This is Russia's biggest advantage.
What is the amount of resources available?