Alongside it is Tom Rob Smith's Child 44, a critically-acclaimed detective thriller set in Soviet Russia.
Mr. Lagutenko founded Mumiy Troll in 1983 in Soviet Russia, where rock 'n' roll was considered a subversive activity and regulated by the government.
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.
S. My father once told me a joke that may be pertinent: A Jewish gentleman created a lot a political havoc in Soviet Russia.
Johnson's plan to close sections of some roads to general traffic so VIPs and competitors are not delayed -- mockingly called "Zil lanes" after their use in Soviet Russia -- is proving controversial.
The second world war prolonged their life, by delaying the onset of corruption in Soviet Russia, by preserving the idea of sacrifice as a national duty, by lending respectability to the idea of centrally directed production.
The range of material is impressive: the chapters deal with the growth of European cities before the industrial revolution, corruption in post-Soviet Russia, privatisation in Eastern Europe, local government in the United States, and more.
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.
Berezovsky was a math professor and systems analyst who switched to more lucrative jobs in post-Soviet Russia, said CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
In Soviet times, Russia's nuclear specialists were among the privileged class who had access to special shops and luxury items, but now they and their families are going hungry.
Berezovsky began his working life as a math professor and then became a systems analyst who switched to more lucrative jobs in post-Soviet Russia, said CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
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The current rise in food commodity prices, in part due to poor conditions in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, may further intensify this trend.
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Another principle is the right of any country, even if it is a former Soviet vassal in what Russia still counts as its own sphere of influence, to ask to join NATO.
There are some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia.
Since the fall of Soviet Communism in 1991, Russia has gone through numerous social and political upheavals.
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Shostakovich was similarly criticised for using Jewish themes in deeply anti-Semitic Soviet Russia.
With the end of the Soviet Union, he returned to Russia in 1991 as an extreme nationalist, lamenting the loss of the Soviet empire.
She spoke for many hours about her life and fate in the small Caucasus republic that has shaped much of what has happened in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.
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These efforts appear to center around opposition figure Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian billionaire who made his fortune in the chaos of post-Soviet Russia.
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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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This Kosovar tycoon made his fortune as a builder in Russia and the former Soviet Union and has plastered Kosovo with posters of the Kremlin and other buildings he worked on, stating how many Kosovars he employed on each.
In recent days, as hard-line elements of the former Soviet Union have begun to reassert themselves in Russia, representatives of the Yeltsin government have launched what appears to be a coordinated effort to signal solidarity with the totalitarian Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic.
In his few months in power, Mr Gaidar and his team demolished the Soviet economy and laid the foundations of capitalism in Russia.
The last successful interplanetary mission for the program was in 1988 when Russia was still the Soviet Union.
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Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, is toying with staying in power as prime minister once his term expires, dismaying some Western fans who saw in him a challenge to the eternal rule of ex-Soviet autocrats such as Russia's Vladimir Putin or Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus.
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When critics had the temerity to point out that Welch had no proof of his allegation about the September jobs numbers, he reacted with sputtering indignation making me wonder how much GE under Welch was like the Soviet Russia that he sees in America today.
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.
While crowds are becoming more western in behaviour, Russia's criminal-justice system is still rooted in the Soviet past: bureaucratic, top-heavy, authoritarian.
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Indeed, in its immediate dealings with a post-Soviet Russia, the West basically adopted the worst possible position.
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Charlotte Hobson is the author of Black Earth City, which describes life in Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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