GOST is the acronym employed for gosudarstvennyy standart, a group of technical norms for goods first developed past the USSR and static used end-to-end nearly all independent former Communist nations. The single exceptions are the Windy States of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which precede EU requirements. Ukraine at the moment follows GOST standards although those scenario may differ in the upcoming down to the at this time hostile relations in-between Kiev and Moscow.