Books: Data and Information 12 years apart

On a recent trip to the library I picked up two books about the CIS that were written 12 years apart:

- "The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics" - Batalden, published by Oryx. (1993)
- "Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, 3rd Edition" - Shoemaker, published by Stryker-Post. (2005)

Flipping through them I wish they had more specific information and statistics, but it might be hidden in the paragraphs. For fun, I'll be going country by country to see what these two separate reports said over a decade apart.