Definition of "oblasts" [oblasts]

• Plural form of oblast. (noun)

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• "The listing of the results seems to be in simple alphabetical order - and, even in the English language, I do not know enough about Ukraine's "oblasts" (regions), to know if there is an East-West divide/loyalty."
• "The two federal cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg had the same status as oblasts and krays."
• "To the nationalist writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, they were “a form of direct capitulation by the center before the autonomies and a violation of the rights of the remaining oblasts of russia.”"