collapse of the Soviet Union

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

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

"When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him, " says Prof. Panarin.

On the surface, the collapse of the Soviet Union reduced China's strategic value to the west.

North Korea's economy, meanwhile, turned into a basket case following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main benefactor.

It took less than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union for Odessa to become a hub for the international sex trade.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, new facts have surfaced about the secret weapons developed by the Red Army during WWII.

Shortly afterwards, the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the relationship of its "defining shared purpose" .

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asia region has become a focus of the international community.

The treaty coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and with German reunification.

Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union has been hard to read.

So, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have former communist countries in the Caucasus and the western Balkans.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its generous subsidies to Cuba, Fidel allowed limited foreign investment and self-employment.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians ate most of their beef cows as the system of reproduction broke down.

Financial implosion robbed politicians of their confidence; the collapse of the Soviet Union remade Japan's geopolitical co-ordinates.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, relations between Russia and Georgia have been of concern for the people of the world.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, no opponent has had the ability to spy on U.

The collapse of the Soviet Union combined with a privatization of the oil fields initiated a turnaround in production starting in 1999.

Mr Putin once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 2th century.

And for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms.

Total numbers are skewed by those displaced by the collapse of the Soviet Union or who became de facto migrants when borders moved.

The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.

Old-fashioned Marxists unmoved by the collapse of the Soviet Union, they have flourished since then by drug-trafficking and kidnapping.

In this book, Thubron travels through the countries of Central Asia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has been the world's sole superpower.

Russia's support for Cuba ended abruptly with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, leaving Cubans bitter.

"The issue is the huge reduction in funding for research and development in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, " says Mr Adams.

The Varyag was originally built for the Soviet navy but construction was interrupted by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

No longer does the US inhabit the lop-sided world created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, western thinkers assumed the west would never need to make geopolitical compromises.

Azerbaijan re-established its independence upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, sparking interest in former Soviet bloc countries.

Yet the collapse of the Soviet Union has made available a trove of new material.

This is the most perilous period for east European countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Mr Putin's worldview was shaped by national humiliation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia took over the operation of Mir.

The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the shared existential threat.

But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin was desperate for hard currency.

Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Mr Beinart traces America's invasion of Iraq to the hubris that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 foreign investors rushed to snap up former state-owned and collective farms.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been moving toward a multipolar and peaceful state.

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought a revolution to Chechnya.

The "unipolar moment" created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has passed.

But the collapse of the Soviet Union did for the command economy.

Some argue an abrupt opening of the Chinese media could lead to instability like that which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

They have claimed credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and they are hatching plans aimed at dismembering Russia.

After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the liberal welfare state has been in decline.

Yet that era, which began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, ended suddenly last year.

A Study on the Collapse of the Soviet Union--An Analysis of a Prevailing View on the Collapse

Soviet System ; Soviet Project ; collapse of the Soviet Union ; causes

The collapse of the Soviet Union