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Use "oblasts" in a sentence
"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.”"