“…This state of affairs had an impact on the financial structure of the newly created countries: GDP at a constant price and GDP per capita fell shortly after these countries left the Soviet Union (Staehr, 2015), the consumer price index was at a very low level, most countries, during the fall of the USSR, had no foreign direct investment (Waikar et al, 2011). Due to these factors, the employment rate, which was always 100% in the Soviet Union, began to decline after 1991, and thus the unemployment rate increased (Zakirova et al, 2019).…”