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Ukraine used to get its gas allocation from Soviet planners and continued to expect the same after independence.

The carrier, formerly known as the Soviet ship Varyag, was renamed Liaoning after years of refitting as well as a year-long sea trial.

After living in Britain for two years, Peters returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 to be reunited with the two children she had left behind.

Around the same time, I began to understand that Solzhenitsyn represents the nationalistic wing of the Soviet dissident movement.

All along the frontier, German preparations for invasion were intensifying, but Soviet forces had not yet even begun to mobilise.

And Mr Yanukovich would be stuck with precisely the label that he has worked so hard to shed: that of a neo-Soviet autocrat.

The post-Communist travails of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example" .

Some Soviet cosmonauts have remained in space for a year at a time.

When the Dalai Lama came to Tuva in 1991, people met him with so much joy it seemed that 30 years of Soviet law had never even existed.

The point was to come up with a new figure that did not make the Soviet Union an unequal partner of the United States.

She said Lenin showed many symptoms of syphilis and that many among the Soviet hierarchy believed he had it.

Yet in the absence of Soviet tanks and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth.

Indeed, he had the advantage of scripting it as the father of the Soviet H-bomb, dissident and a political prisoner.

Brought up and educated in Soviet culture, he was simply unable to think his way out of that system.

It has no significant Muslim population (just a handful of Tatars, and some Soviet-era Iraqis, both highly integrated).

Sometimes laughter was the only remedy for life in "Absurdistan" , as the Soviet bloc was often called.

It is an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expansion across Eastern Europe.

Stalin's idea was that scientists would study the brain to prove that the Soviet founder had been a genius.

Just like the Soviet parades of yore, it was a chance to see what military hardware the North might be showing off.

As the flagship of the Soviet navy, the Dreadnaught is a powerhouse, able to inflict a massive amount of damage on its own.

The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe.

I also hoped that, speaking Russian fluently as he did, he might become an important link with the Soviet High Command.

Unlike the Soviet Union, it appears to have found a way to lift millions out of poverty while still locking up its dissidents.

Turkey has no diplomatic ties with Armenia and refuses to open its border with the landlocked ex-Soviet republic.

In this posting we are going to compare the Metro at the time of opening with the Metro at the moment of Soviet government change.

The rouble area did not long outlive the Soviet Union; the monetary union of the Czech Republic and Slovakia lasted only a matter of weeks.

He said that at the time of the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968, there was no Russian stock market.

S. adhere to its promises made to the Soviet Union in Yalta as a condition of the Soviet Union's entry into the war with Japan.

He said Afghanistan was abandoned to its fate after the Soviet army withdrew and extremism flourished.

Soviet Russia also didn't plan to alter its intention to carry out a revolutionary war in Eastern Europe (at least before the NEP began).

This was one of several models of buttonhole cameras widely used in the Soviet Union, Europe and North America.

But in Russia, where the notion of a tsar survived the Soviet Union, divided power is usually problematic.

But I tell you all our modern homes have equipment of this sort, and to get a flat you have only to be a Soviet visitor, not a citizen.

In addition , the former Soviet republic has ordered roughly half of the U. S. diplomatic staff serving in Belarus to leave the country .

This was a standoff between the West, the US, versus the international communist world, centered around the Soviet Union.

If those challenges cannot be tackled, however, the landscape around Aynak will be disfigured by more than just a few Soviet-era holes.

In the Soviet Union research was as vigorous as in the United States and showed a similar mix of empirical and basic theoretical approaches.

At a stroke, a rocky transition - only the second since the collapse of the Soviet Union - seems to have been solved.

Mr Putin always took great care over symbols, marking the beginning of his rule with the restoration of the Soviet anthem.

And Russia is trying to maintain the dominant position it held since the Soviet era as the lead foreign supplier to India's military.

Wang Jiyu was born in the year of disintegration of the Soviet Union and grew up in an era of great changes in entertainment.

The Soviet Union needed no growth in its military capabilities to attack it even if it was not yet strong enough to take on the west.

Gorbachev also recognized that the Soviet economy needed fundamental reforms, as it had not posted positive growth in nearly a decade.

Armed with an old-fashioned Soviet box camera, and a sturdy shovel, Romanenko spent several days last week prodding the tundra.

After all, they said, that is how they had been doing the procedure since Soviet times. The razor blade did at least seem to be clean.

It was a sellout that might be compared to this hypothetical situation: Suppose the United States was at war with the Soviet Union.

India, however, is not in an arms race or "numbers game" like the US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era.

He understood that we could not mediate effectively until it was clear that our actions had not been extorted by Soviet pressure.

The new ruling class did not seek approval from Tbilisi's intelligentsia, which had become enormously powerful in the late Soviet period.

The change is all the more startling when Georgia's fate is contrasted with that of other former Soviet republics, including Russia.

Being much interested in the rhythm of the Soviet capital, he took a lot of pictures of the city's everyday life.

Prior to the Soviet siege of Stalingrad, the German supply disruptions, and then the heat of battle, only a few ounces of bread a day.

He told Dobrynin that he was prepared to let bygones be bygones; the time had come to put US-Soviet relations on a new basis .

That this son should have been educated in the Soviet Union seems like a caricature of a poor novel.

And authorities always informed Soviet Russian people with the results of the flights, trying to raise feel of proud in common people souls.

Gorbachev was also now ready to start laying the groundwork for an orderly Soviet troop withdrawal.

The Soviet scientist made his experiments with a bad light, on wooden tables, using an old vacuum cleaner instead of a compressor.

His second regret, he said, is that he did not start to reform the Soviet Union and give more power to its 15 republics at an earlier stage.

The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

Gen MacArthur was urging Kennedy not to get bogged down in a war in a time, place and manner chosen by China or the Soviet Union.

He tried to tantalize me by revealing that the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss a package deal .

Last week he took to the wheel of his Soviet-era Volga Gaz-21 car, giving Russia's patriarch a lift.

It was the winter of 1979 and a few days later, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan, across the palace, crunching what was left.

THE monument to Soviet central planning was supposed to have been a heap of surplus left boots without any right ones to match them.

The Soviet National Idea of exporting revolution, conquering space and winning Olympic medals was a strange mix, but at least it was steady.

It was virtually the only aircraft that the Soviet naval aircraft used for antisubmarine warfare.

The Soviet model used a bayonet of its own and was known as a gadget of a very high quality.

Among former Warsaw Pact countries, the majority of Russians and Ukrainians said the break up of the Soviet Union was a bad thing.

America itself, as well as the former Soviet Union, are the only other countries to have tested anti-satellite weapons.

The Soviet elite did not own property in London, nor did they aspire to send their children to British public schools.

This problem seems to be an apple of discord between the Soviet union and the USA.

The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.

Naderi's brother Jafar had been a militia commander during the last days of Soviet occupation, with a 12, 000-member private army.

He went on in Soviet vein: "Russia endeavours to be a predictable, strong and accommodating partner" to its neighbours.

Yes, it's unfair that so much of our future is determined by what we did in high school, as if we were some Soviet Olympic team.

Indeed, not even the Soviet Union adopted Pinyin, but continued to refer to China's capital as Peking and its leader as Mao Tse-tung.

We evaded the Soviet proposal of banning nuclear weapons in war and substituted for it a clause abjuring the threat of force in peacetime.

Second, the United States continued to fear Soviet conventional superiority in Europe.

After all, the Soviet nuclear rocket program may have been more advanced than the American efforts at the time of the USSR's collapse.

both of China's past and present and of foreign countries, including the Soviet Union, I knew he was a man with a receptive mind.

Even so, Iran is nothing like the totalitarian, mass-murdering regimes of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, which will fundamentally change the war situation.

After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union began to develop large rockets for exploring space.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it suddenly became obvious that the USSR had never been a proper country.

And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it.

I bet the Soviet brass stood that poor guy up against one of those burned out aircraft and shot him on the spot!

Kennedy decided to use a naval blockade -- he called it a "quarantine" -- to prevent any more Soviet ships from reaching Cuba.

I thought it unwise in the extreme to announce such a decision before we had any idea of the next Soviet move in the Middle East.

Carving up the Soviet Union along along the borders of its former republics made for an often unworkable allocation of physical assets.

There is an example that I got to know like this. He is a great composer of former Soviet Union Shostakovich.

Analysts say that terrorism has been a major concern in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

And when drunk he cursed himself for allowing the state to see him as a symbol of continuity between the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia.

Taxation would no longer be able to reflect the preferences of the voters. The new member states did not shrug off the Soviet yoke for that.

For a while, U. S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.

But Mr Castro stopped trying to overthrow Latin American governments more than two decades ago, shortly before his Soviet sponsor collapsed.

(Laughter and applause. ) The Soviet Premier, Khrushchev, had threatened to "bury" America just a few years before.

In Russia, a very different kind of uprising replaced the aristocracy of the czars with that of the Soviet Politburo.

He said he believed that Russians were slowly growing more comfortable with sex as a new post-Soviet generation has come of age.

Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

The interior of the engine hall is like that of any metal workshop of a Soviet factory.

He tried to lure me into a drafting session by urging me to indicate my objections to the Soviet text line by line.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had between them tens of thousands of nuclear warheads.

Nagorno-Karabakh is often described as one of several post-Soviet "frozen conflicts" .

like the united states and the soviet union after the actual world war ii , the japanese and the germans are distrustful of one another.

He was convinced that the threat of general war was one of the chief fears of the Soviet Union.

Stalin feared that the multi-ethnic Soviet Union was a breeding ground for fifth-columnists, who would aid the enemy in case of war.

The only certain result was that two Olympic Games were spoiled, because in 1984 the Soviet bloc, in retaliation, boycotted Los Angeles.

She had few illusions about the Soviet regime, but she did not like the sight of a crowd vandalising a statue of Lenin in Grozny either.

It also led to his falling-out with Sartre, who at the time was still defending the Soviet Union and refusing to condemn the gulags.

"The system is all from the Soviet Union but the CCP has taken it to an extreme, " says Yuan Weishi, of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong.

My view is completely in accord with that of the Allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

If the Soviet Union did not collapse, Afghanistan would be a communist right now.

In this and other ways, the last years of the Soviet Union saw its military- industrial complex gradually pushed out into the light of day.

Upon his return to the U. S. S. R. , Abel was hailed as a hero and awarded the Order of Lenin, the Soviet Union's highest honor.

Now it is struggling to keep up in the most heated space race since the Cold War competition between the U. S. and the Soviet Union.

To the east, Soviet forces also were marching into Germany. It did not take long for the American and Soviet forces to meet in victory.

People marvelled that the Soviet system had produced such a human figure, and had allowed him to survive.

The truth was exactly the other way round: it was the Soviet secret police who organised ruthless repatriations, often dividing families.

For a generation, the failure of Soviet Communism had been evident for all to see.

Less than six years on, they seem to have reached a post-Soviet nadir.

This was the context in which the United States attempted to grapple with the dynamics of the Soviet system.

In early August, an old Soviet-built aircraft carrier which had undergone a decade of refurbishments underwent its first sea trial.

Pakistan is using proxies, and that's a reference to these groups that have their roots back in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union.

It involved serious issues of strategic doctrine and went to the heart of our arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union.

The Japanese, however, were able to avoid complete routing due to rough terrain, which prevented Soviet tanks from engaging in a pursuit.

Don't look down on young people, as she is not a sick family had already gone to the Soviet side doctor read.

Throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union cast an ominous shadow over the world. It was the U. S. 's dark twin.

Well, that's life. We're not the Soviet Union, where there was no sex. It is a normal phenomenon, and the need for health. . .

In 1980 almost every Soviet family had an electronic device that had actually been a good copy of gadgets produced by Nintendo company.

He is not, as is often alleged, a neo-Soviet ruler: there is little trace of communism left in the Kremlin.

If Communism had not fallen, the full story of four remarkable pro-Soviet spies would perhaps never have been told.

Th ere was no question that the attack took place and that Soviet aircraft were destroyed on a Soviet airfield.

But the seismic shocks shattered the Soviet Union, bringing freedom, or at least the chance of it, to 15 new countries.

Putin's novel contribution was to synthesize that reading list into a creative contemporary fusion of czarist and Soviet ideas.

Mr. Rumsfeld said the Soviet Union was unprecedentedly engaged in a missile-building programme.

He said the 300 metre (990-foot) former Soviet carrier, originally called the Varyag, was being overhauled.

The Soviet Union might have gone the way of China and had an economic liberalization that ignored human rights.

It was not Read China but Soviet Russia, he said by implication, against which this country must stand ready.

The United States standing as the foremost capitalist liberal democracy whilst the Soviet Union was the foremost communist state.

He hoped that after peace the British Government would not prohibit the publication of the Soviet Constitution.

The world did not get pictures from the surface of the moon until the Soviet Luna 9 landed there in February, nineteen sixty-six.

Souza said the man with the camera is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin posing as a tourist during his days as a Soviet spy.

It was also the first published account of life in a Soviet labor camp .

The Soviet Union will be dissolved in this decade or at the latest by the beginning of the next.

Many incipient crises with Soviet Union have been contained or settled without ever reaching the point of public disagreement.

It is all about the present, specifically Russia's claim of having "privileged interests" in its post-Soviet neighbours.

China then, like the Soviet Union, was a bleak place with little other intellectual stimulation. People yearned for provocative ideas.

Even a Russian Invasion of Poland would be, In the last analysis, a brutality committed withIn the locked Soviet household.

Up to 6m work permits are to be available this year for migrants from the poor ex-Soviet republics.

By this time the German tanks had come up against the excellent Soviet T-34, and armour and armament were being increased.

The Soviet KGB and its pre-revolutionary ancestors did not care much about money; power was what mattered.

Elements of at least three Soviet Armies and two complete East German and Czech Armies should be expected during the first critical days.

The Soviet Union and the United States had been ideological opposites since the October Revolution.

The key to his plan was the need to prevent the German panzers from breaking free and manoeuvring against the Soviet rear areas.

The enriched uranium was used in a Soviet-designed research reactor near Tashkent, described as the largest of its kind in Central Asia.

Petrosian s wife, famous for her radical partisanship, had followed the analysis of the two Soviet GMs.

The old Soviet school system, though often delivering high standards, did not prepare students for post-communist times.

We have no wish to war with the Soviet Union -- for we are a peaceful people who desire to live in peace with all other peoples.

or with Che Guevara, who by many accounts broke with him over his decision to lead Cuba into the Soviet bloc.

In Brezhnev's time there was no formal opposition to Soviet power - merely a handful of dissidents and intellectuals.

" Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Reagan was the greatest contribution to the end of the East and West, " the Cold War.

As the first Communism Republic, Soviet-Russia attracted the attention all over the World in the beginning of 20 century.

Even after no longer Soviet domination, China is to be a balance power for the super power country like United State.

Mr Savisaar, who in 1990-92 piloted Estonia out of Soviet occupation, is no longer at the height of his powers.

The experts still had to produce a number that would both be credible and meet the objectives of Soviet diplomacy.

And today we are going back almost 80 years to the former Soviet Union and a time of immense suffering, the Ukrainian famine.

To contain the fallout, the Soviet Union constructed a metal and concrete structure commonly known as the sarcophagus over the wreckage.

The Afghan war was the biggest failure of Soviet diplomacy, and a direct cause of its disintegration.

The aluminum industry was one of the most lucrative in the chaos following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

But at times, recycled Soviet bomb cores have made up the majority of the American market for low-enriched uranium fuel.

(Laughter) Let me tell you my story. 20 years ago, Bonnier, Swedish publisher, started to set newspapers in the former Soviet Bloc.

But contrary to what you might gather from the western press, Russia is not the Soviet Union.

After a year I was sent to Berlin to be a spy at the lowest level, monitoring Soviet planes.

Although little known to the outside world, Katayev had a prime seat in the heart of Kremlin decision-making until the Soviet collapse.

Mr. Bush called for the U. S. Congress to lift the Soviet-era amendment, which tied trade with Moscow to its human-rights record.

that would have been political suicide. But he saw anti-Soviet slogans and hostile workers who refused to talk to the Russian visitors.

Minsk is the capital city of Belarus, which used to be part of Soviet Russia but is an independent country now.

where he lived in Dresden under a false name and with a cover-up job as the head of a so-called German-Soviet Friendship Society.

Life in Russia's countryside doesn't seem to have changed much since Soviet times.

The Soviet Union's space-faring triumph did not betoken much of an economic threat.

And if you think China is peaceful then I suppose you think Soviet Russia was peaceful.

It was even more against our interest to permit the Soviet Union to overwhelm or to humiliate Cuba.

A literature search conducted before the test found a Soviet report titled "Firing for Effects Against Strongpoints. "

For all its malevolence, the Soviet empire was like a Ponzi scheme, dependent on ever-increasing amounts of money.

Instead, he tried to hold on to power until the very last moment -- to preserve the Soviet Union until it was too late.

It's got to have amenities and public spaces and not just big Soviet-style housing towers that people don't want.

On the basis of my own observations, I should like to elucidate a few problems concerning the Soviet Union and China.

Governments of what were once Soviet territories have eagerly signed up to the class enemy's alliances, NATO and the European Union.

People need to know what they need to do and not to be sort of motivated with slogans in the old Soviet style.

Born Jewish in Poland in 1937, he spent long days of his childhood hiding from the Nazis in an attic near the border of the Soviet Union.

Until World War II, Soviet Russia was the only example of a Communist regime.

Before the U. S. reactionaries have subjugated these countries, an attack on the Soviet Union is out of the question .

The project was commissioned as part of a broad modernization program that extended a network of electrical towers across the Soviet Union.

In the early 1980s, back in the Soviet period, there was a special service to limit snowfall over Moscow.

Thereafter the "wonderful Georgian" was to be the Party's recognized expert on the 174 different peoples that made up Soviet Russia.

Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance whilestill trying to pretend that not much had happened.

In November 1974, Mr. Yakovlev said he was headed back to the Soviet Union for a vacation.

Building an ABM, it was argued, implied that we might await a Soviet attack and seek to ride it out.

The aircraft has been a component of the Russian air force since it was introduced in 1983, for the then-Soviet military.

Far from rebuilding the Soviet Union, the Kremlin seems determined to follow the path which led to its collapse 20 years ago.

At best, it looks like an innocuous kind of billing and cooing Soviet teenagers would practice on their first date in the early 1970s.

In Soviet hands it was the Varyag (a sister ship is the only operational carrier in Russia's navy).

Today's government, for all its Soviet nostalgia, seems to feel no such obligation.

After World War Two, Hu Shi (Hu Shih) believed, the Soviet Union had turned out to be a "horrible, invasive force. "

Ironically , it was the United States for the Soviet dissentient, Bukovsky .

They needed a plane that could carry nuclear bombs across the globe, to the Soviet Union, in only a few hours.

Indeed, the Kremlin had no reason to continue with the Soviet-era subsidies to former Soviet republics like the Ukraine or Belarus.

Hammer tanks are the back bone of any tier 2 army and are staples of a soviet late game armored assault.

Just 10% consider it a democratic victory over Soviet Communist rule.

K-19 was one of the first two Soviet submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles.

These successive eruptions posed problems for the U. S. world order, and indeed for the Soviet Union as well.

The Soviet Union was undermined by stagnation and a sense of hopelessness. Is the same thing happening again?

As a result of the language policy of the Soviet Union, Russian is also commonly spoken as a second language among the urbane.

But the only pain he felt was the desolation of knowing the Soviet empire was doomed to collapse.

Soviet people were used to stay in longer lines, it was an everyday occurence.

According to a former KGB general, Pavel Sudoplatov, Roosevelt had at least two Soviet agents in his inner cabinet.

Everyday psychiatric practice in many parts of the Soviet Union during this period was embedded in a repressive and authoritarian culture.

Was the war a transformative experience for the Soviet system, or did it reinforce features already prominent?

Soviet counterattacks and artillery barrages rained down on the Totenkopf Division well into the night, inflicting heavy casualties.

Beijing's "underground city" dates back to China's 1969 border war with the Soviet Union and it more than lives up to its name.

And by the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and will be carried all over the Soviet Union.

He was not really a spy, as he has been described, but worked for domestic units of the FSB, one of the KGB's post-Soviet successors.

The former Soviet Union occupied Heixiazi and Yinlong Islands in 1929, and this had not been accepted by China.

Compared with the conditions prevailing in Soviet Russia even Tsarist Russia, retrospectively, looks like a country of a free press.

The statement passed by the State Duma appears aimed as a step toward Russia definitively breaking with its Soviet legacy.

A revealing bit of Soviet jargon applied to owners of cars was chastnik, meaning, roughly, a suspicious private person.

He belongs to what was once the Soviet intelligentsia, and is more interested in business than rockets.

In Soviet State racism, what revolutionary discourse designated as the class enemy becomes a sort of biological threat.

It did not take long for the American and Soviet forces to meet in victory.

During the double-polarized powers of its former form "Soviet Union" , Russia used to stride shoulder to shoulder with the US.

These Soviet-made launchers are normally attached to helicopters; in this case, they were used for ground attacks.

It called for smaller government, lower taxes, a moral dimension to social policy and a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union.

The main reason there was the decline in demand from the ex-Soviet bloc economies in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

The donors' conference launches a week of commemorations in Ukraine marking the Soviet-era explosion and fire.

When the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died in 1953, the German prisoners hoped to be allowed to return home.

He was a vehement critic of both German and Soviet historical crimes against Poland, and a strong supporter of countries such as Georgia.

The Soviet regime bred nihilism among government officials but, he says, the fear that once restrained the worst of it has gone.

I on the other hand prefer to think of him as the father of Soviet mad science.

North Korea's economy was never advanced; it was an industrial economy with similarities to the Soviet Union.

True, the Serbian areas now amount to a new "frozen conflict" in Europe, like Cyprus or parts of the former Soviet Union.

Fortunately for Georgi, America was fertile ground for the kind of criminal enterprises he'd practiced in the old Soviet Union.

One reason why the League became ineffective was that a few key countries, including Germany and the Soviet Union, were not members.

Anything her father had learned after eight years of primary school had come courtesy of the Soviet Navy.

The second way in which Chinese Communism might be halted would be by interference from the Soviet Union.

Soviet analysts summarized his views by saying "there was no need to repair one's walls just because a neighbor was doing so. "

But Ford refused to back down from his original response, insisting that Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia are free from Soviet interference.

One of the first decrees of his presidency in 2000 was to restore the Soviet national anthem.

For his part, Mr Yushchenko sees it as his mission to transform a post-Soviet country into a democratic European one.

The meeting had begun with a preliminary analysis of the Soviet tests.

The first and the last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa fly to Samara during presidential campaign in 1996.