The leveret runs in the steppe.

Ukraine s politics are not those of the steppe.

Among other things, pastoral nomadism permits societies to exploit the variable and patchy resources of the steppe.

Most of Ukraine's area is taken up by the steppe like region just north of the Black Sea.

An example of that is the great nomadic civilization of the Eurasian steppe, of which my country is a part.

The problem with all of these nomad wars was that the Manchu could not maintain a permanent army on the steppe.

In general Ukraine is split between two biomes mixed forest towards the middle of continent and steppe towards Black Sea littoral.

The territory of Moldova east of the river Dniester is split between parts of the Podolian Plateau, and parts of the Eurasian Steppe.

The number of animal species in the West Siberian Plain ranges from at least 107 in the tundra to 278 or more in the forest steppe region.

In the south of the plain, where permafrost is largely absent, rich grasslands that are an extension of the Kazakh Steppe formed the original vegetation (almost all cleared now).

See also West Siberian petroleum basin East European Plain, the other major plain of Russia Eurasian steppe References External links NASA Images West Siberian Plain Topography and Drainage of Russia Peatlands of the World Russia Siberia

Europe the Linear Pottery culture gives way to the Funnelbeaker culture in the north Cucuteni Trypillian culture Pit Comb Ware culture In the Pontic steppe, the Dnieper Donets and Sredny Stog cultures flourish, according to the Kurgan hypothesis associated with Proto Indo Europeans.

With its high levels of rainfall, the Central African climate produces vegetation consisting of a wide variety of thick forest in the south and west of the country, wooded and grass savannah in the north, a patchwork of dry forests and savannahs, and steppe land in the far north east of the country.