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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dozens of Soviet-era structures have been callously destroyed during the last decade even as Pare was meticulously working to document them.

Ethnolinguistic maps of the region reward close study, though the figures from the best Soviet-era research are out of date.

Zyuganov may be able to pick up votes from some young people with no memory of the Soviet era.

The Russian Orthodox Church was rising everywhere from the ashes of the Soviet era, and millions of Russians were rushing to be baptized.

Qaddafi's soldiers were largely veterans and mercenaries, backed up with significant artillery, most of it Soviet-era.

But Brussels should remember that detecting public support is not the same thing as actual democracy: just ask any Soviet-era comic.

Two of the KGB men had been convicted in their country of compromising dozens of Soviet-era and Russian agents in the West.

The glittering harbour, beyond the gantries, cranes and Soviet-era housing, is overlooked by the active Avachinsky and Koryaksky volcanoes.

Bad old habits lingered from the Soviet era (bullying, alcoholism) and bad new ones had been picked up (mutiny, corruption).

In the late Soviet era, aspirations for Ukrainian independence were confined to a group of dissident writers and intellectuals.

Ukraine said it would get rid of its highly enriched uranium, left over from dismantled Soviet-era weapons.

Despite Soviet-era attempts to force residents of the Caucasus to speak Russian, many Caucasian languages thrive today.

Evoking a line from a popular Soviet-era film during a live television phone-in programme, he announced, "A thief should be in jail. "

But the scars of the Soviet era, and the gaudy gimcrack results of 20 years of crony capitalism, are visible too.

The Soviet era, there was criminal liability, but in the current law there is no such criminal responsibility, there is no ban.

Russian elections are increasingly reminiscent of the Soviet era, when choice was narrowed to one candidate and one party.

Many appear to have been built from Soviet-era blueprints, and to have staff who go out of their way to demonstrate that they hate you.

These range from a Russian ban on Polish food products to a row over Estonia's decision to move a Soviet-era war memorial.

It has been popular as a low-level drug since the Soviet era.

From the 1952 Helsinki Games until the end of the Soviet era, Belarus competed in the Olympic Games as part of the Soviet Olympic squad.

He urged the country to modernise the "primitive" Soviet-era economy with its reliance on oil and gas.

The strike, though, was not the work of Mr. Saleh's decrepit Soviet-era air force.

Russia has a history of whitewashing potentially embarrassing national disasters, a lingering legacy of the Soviet era.

Though the aircraft carrier was refitted from an old Soviet-era one, it will soon become a NEW member of China's navy.

The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant. Built in the Soviet era near a city known as Metsamor.

After the collapse of communism, when many Soviet-era factories closed down, thousands of people left UB to reclaim their pastoral roots.

'In the Soviet era, the rule was to deny such people; they didn't exist, ' said Olga Oliker, a senior policy analyst at RAND Corp.

We pass shabbily made Soviet-era wardrobes festooned with neon-coloured plastic flowers and into the sweets section.

Both pipelines are components of the Soviet-era Central Asia-Center pipeline system bound for Russia.

During the Soviet era, the route through which it passed consisted of countries aligned with Russia.

At the show, Putin also tried to play a Soviet-era song called From Where The Motherland Begins but hit a wrong key and stopped.

The annual award takes its name from Andrei Sakharov, a well-known Soviet-era human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" , the anthem of the European Union, was played along with the Soviet-era national anthem.

This is partly the legacy of the Soviet era, she said.

For decades, central Asia's environment has suffered from over-ambitious Soviet-era irrigation projects.

A bitter joke from the Soviet-era has it that Russia is the world's only country with an unpredictable past.

Perhaps, say many, austerity is too not hard to bear after the experience of communism and late Soviet-era inflation.

Threats: The cultural policy of the Soviet era ignored the traditional arts of Boysun.

Russia holds onto much Soviet-era plunder, taken from Germany and other countries, including from private citizens who were anti-Nazis.

Tajikistan was known for its theater and famous novelists during the Soviet era.

These Soviet era vehicles are acquired through the Arms Dealer and come produced with the first level of salvage.

But the prime minister said that he and Medvedev are smarter and have worked harder than leaders during the Soviet era.

After the latest crashes, Moscow ordered inspections of most Soviet-era planes.

The "Tulip Revolution" of 2005 brought down Askar Akayev, a Soviet-era strongman, who now teaches maths in Moscow.

The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located just above the station.

A Soviet era water tower and been modernised and all emergency fire ponds kept full.

This Soviet-era network is a reminder of the country's communist past.

Eight of the nine crashes involved Soviet-era planes.

The North has an arsenal of Soviet-era Scud missiles that can hit South Korea, but its longer-range missiles are untested.

Soviet-era housing complex in Alamar, near Havana, Cuba.

Soviet era motor car advertising a clothing store.

Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden captured a Ukrainian ship with 33 Soviet-era tanks on board, then demanded a ransom of $20m.

This is the latest in a string of Russian air disasters involving Soviet-era Tupolev jets.

The North Korea Air Force has approximately 1, 700 aircraft, including about 800 fighters, and nearly all of those are Soviet-era MiGs.

Masterpieces of the culinary art of the Soviet era and more.

In the late Soviet era capital investment in Russia was 31% of GDP.

During the Soviet era rural areas were heavily populated and the school catered for 200 pupils.

An increasingly popular item is the Chinese-made AK-47, which is matching the Soviet-era version once supplied so generously by Mr Bout.

The tower which shows the time is from the Soviet era.

Over 30 years the Egyptian armed forces have replaced Soviet-era weapons with top-notch American kit, such as F-16 fighters and M1 tanks.

On the Cadre Training in Indochina During the Soviet Era