?I was 23 years old, born and raised in Soviet Union, and the idea seemed ridiculous to me,? she said. And concern, because despite its vices and problems the Soviet Union kept the lifestyle, safety and security in Armenia aligned with Europe,? he said. After years of food shortages, rising nationalist movements and an attempted coup, Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, resigned on Christmas Day 1991. ?It would be great if Estonia could just be Estonia, without having the label of ?country previously occupied by Soviet Union?. Read more?Luckily the Soviet Union ended just in time for me.

A major review into the UK?s gender discrimination laws is to be launched amid fears a potential post-Brexit move towards a lower regulation economy could see protections eroded. ?This fear of a race to the bottom and becoming this low-regulation, low-tax economy is, I think, a very real one. She said: ?Some of the basic rights that we now take for granted ? pregnancy and maternity rights, part-time workers? rights, equal pay for work of equal value ? are all at risk if the UK becomes a low-regulation economy.? The nine-month inquiry by the Fawcett Society is to be led by Dame Laura Cox, a retired high court judge, assisted by a series of lawyers, academics and others. The Fawcett Society is behind one of the dozens of amendments to the government bill to trigger article 50, which begins Brexit, seeking to prevent protections being repealed.