What's the difference between Russia and those other eastern European countries?

<h3>What's the difference between Russia and those other eastern European countries?</h3>

What's the difference between Russia and those other eastern European countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, etc.)?


<strong>Lithuania best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by Vasisualiy</i><br/>What's the difference between the USA and Canada, or Germany and Austria, or the US and Mexico. You pulled together very different countries, some of which aren't even European at all.</p>
<p><strong>Lithuania vs. Russia in quarter finals of Men's Basketball.</strong>
<img alt="Lithuania" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8477/8273533069_54de7767db.jpg" width="400"/><br/>
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51447203@N05/8273533069">Sid the Kid2010</a></i>
Alexey Shved of Russia being guarded by Renaldas Seibutis of Lithuania.</p>

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