In the war's aftermath, Poland and Soviet Russia fought a war over territories.
The caller invited Boris Katz to a midnight meeting with an unnamed guest -- and in Soviet Russia, Katz didn't dare ask who it was.
Although post-Soviet Russia and Belarus had similar rises in vodka consumption after the Soviet alcohol monopoly broke up, only in Russia did unemployment and death rates surge among working-age men.
In subsequent years similar formulations were used to challenge those responsible for the loss to the Free World of Vietnam, Iran and post-Soviet Russia.
But this is a humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present.
Manchurian-born Tretchikoff escaped from Soviet Russia and emigrated to South Africa after World War II.
They are accused of feeding information to the former Soviet Union and then Russia since then.
There are some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia.
The Clinton administration set the stage for Vladimir Putin's KGB state by squandering the US's massive influence over post-Soviet Russia and allowing Boris Yeltsin and his cronies to transform the country into an impoverished kleptocracy.
The vast majority come from Russia's ex-Soviet neighbours, where living standards fell further and faster when the Soviet economy disintegrated than in Russia itself.
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The souring of relations with Russia helped push Mr Yanukovich towards the EU. Yet his core supporters in Ukraine's east and south prefer union with Russia and other ex-Soviet republics.
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The brief war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia served as a reminder to the rest of the Soviet Union that Russia remained the regional hegemon, and gave notice that the US would not extend meaningful support to pro-US governments that found themselves in confrontation with Russia.
Yes, and--to stretch the point quite a way--Stalin's Soviet Russia built marvelous subways and won a great war.
The new theme is likely to be integration between Russia and former Soviet republics.
Simple: the Cold War and the arms race with Soviet Russia.
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The mental state of Robert Hanssen, who for more than twenty years spied for the Soviet Union and then for Russia while productively employed as a counterintelligence analyst for the F.
If true, all this would make a mockery of the ABM Treaty, which explicitly forbids the U.S. and the Soviet Union (now Russia) from developing any national defense against ballistic missiles.
That would be quite a gamble: even if Mr Simonenko's policies of uniting with Russia and restoring Soviet-style socialism proved unsuccessful, just attempting them could be even more damaging than Mr Kuchma's misrule.
But measure China against a definitional checklist written by Robert Service, the veteran historian of Soviet Russia, and Beijing retains a surprising number of the qualities that characterized communist regimes of the 20th century.
Bottom Line: As the EBRD is expected to play a central role in multilateral lending to Russia and other Soviet successor states and Eastern Europe, it is essential that Congress open its own inquiry and hearings into what the Center for Security Policy has long predicted would be yet another self-aggrandizing and bloated new international bureaucracy, in part funded by the U.S. taxpayer.
When the Iron Curtain lifted, we expanded our alliance to include the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, and built new bridges to Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.
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In his few months in power, Mr Gaidar and his team demolished the Soviet economy and laid the foundations of capitalism in Russia.
Are changes in the ABM Treaty "substantive, " requiring Senate approval, if Russia succeeds to the role of the Soviet Union or--as the administration proposed and the Russian government has twice approved- -if Russia, together with Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan become the Soviet Union's successor states?
The road, built in 1875 and modernised in Soviet times, is now the main artery between Russia and Georgia.
But Paul wrote extensively, incisively and all-too-knowledgeably about post-Soviet Russia's crime-ridden, oft-murderous worlds of business and politics.
Relations between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have been tense for some time.
Out of 19 attempted missions, Russia and the former Soviet Union have had only a few partial successes.
Lately he has expanded his Chabad initiatives, once confined to Russia and other former Soviet republics, to the West.
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