The Russian Democratic Federative Republic (RDFR; Russian: Российская Демократическая Федеративная Республика), informally known as the Russian Republic (Russian: Российская республика, translit. Rossiyskaya respublika) or West Russia, was a republic established by Germany in 1949 out of the western zone of the occupied Soviet Union. The Russian Republic comprised of the European sections of Russia, bordering from the northwest to southeast, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, East Turkestan, and Siberia. In 1991, after the ousting of the Republican government, the Northern Eurasian states formed the Russian Federation with the unification of the Russian, Siberian, and Far Eastern republics.