Eastern Europe & the (former) Soviet Union transitioned to a:
Market-based economy.
Answer:
United States
Explanation:
Are you sure your question is worded right?
Are you sure it wasn't asking for the North Eastern country? If so, here's that answer.
That would be the United States! Russia is a massive country and spans the northern portion of Eurasia reaching from eastern Europe to the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeast Asia. That peninsula is bordered by the Bering Strait, the body of water that separates Russia from the State of Alaska.
Converging plate boundaries. continent to continent plate boundary converging if you want to be more specific.
to converge means to bring something together, that's how I always remembered. Transform boundaries move side to side, and are the reason for mainly fault lines, such as the San Andreas Fault in California. All plate boundaries do occur at subduction zones.
The world is improving energy efficiency and vehicle fuel economy and also increasing wind and solar power.