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.
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.
The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.
Two decades ago the breakup of the Soviet Union left Russia's defense industry on the verge of collapse.
Russia now has 87 billionaires, more than any nation except the U.S. Sixteen years after the Soviet collapse, Russia has handily overtaken Germany, which held the number two spot for six years but hasn't produced many new billion-dollar fortunes of late.
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?
In the very early days after the Soviet collapse, Russia and some of its neighbours swarmed with Western advisers, disseminating not only the basics of market economics but also the mechanics of multi-party democracy.
As the foreign-ministry document asserts, Russia needs to consolidate the former Soviet space by, for example, pushing the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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 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.
But the prime minister dismissed suggestions that this is an effort to somehow recreate the Soviet Union, saying Russia wants to play in the global market.
The collapse of the Soviet Union eliminated Russia's potential threat to western China.
Indeed, no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame duck session.
Since the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has had only three presidents, including Medvedev, now up for re-election if he chooses to run.
Banned under the Soviet regime, Russia now has over a thousand casinos generating revenues in excess of half a billion US dollars, an expansion unprecedented in gambling history.
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This slight culminated in a more fundamental failure: while America was still hoping that Mr Gorbachev could reform the Soviet system, Russia and the rest were declaring independence.
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.
What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
The Tsarnaev family's connection with Russia is complex because of the intricate patchwork of ethnicities that comprises Russia and the former Soviet Union.
"Russia lost the Cold War and in my opinion this document is just fixing the victory of the West over Russia or over the Soviet Union, " said presidential council member Andranik Migranyan.
Very roughly speaking, and ignoring the rest of the former Soviet Union, Russia today is arguably where it might have been if it had avoided perestroika and the collapse of communism, choosing instead a Chinese path of strictly limited freedom.
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With the end of the Soviet Union, he returned to Russia in 1991 as an extreme nationalist, lamenting the loss of the Soviet empire.
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.
Putin's promise to scrap visas was seen as crucial to his country's prospects of winning the vote as nationals of almost all countries outside the former Soviet Union require the paperwork to visit Russia.
The last successful interplanetary mission for the program was in 1988 when Russia was still the Soviet Union.
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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.
There are some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia.
In April, almost 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, Russia agreed to demarcate its land (though not its sea) border with Ukraine.
Simple: the Cold War and the arms race with Soviet Russia.
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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.
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