But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Counterfeit medications are also a problem in the Middle East and in many countries of the former Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

"There were severe weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries."

VOA: special.2010.12.07

When she arrived in Moscow, a Soviet official gave her a special travel permit, because he liked her industrial photographs.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The other five countries that signed the treaty were Belgium, Japan,South Africa, the Soviet Union and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They promised to protect each other from the growing threat they saw from another former ally, the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov won a fierce battle for the city of Stalingrad -- now Volgograd.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

She returned home with more than three thousand photographs C the first western documentary on the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The American president and the Soviet leader were able to communicate directly and immediately on the hot line.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

She was honored for organizing a coalition of non-governmental groups and government agencies in eleven former Soviet states.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of Yugoslavia in the nineteen nineties challenged NATO's traditional position as a defensive alliance.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

By the end of the trip, Margaret Bourke-White had traveled eight thousand kilometers throughout the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

President Reagan met with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev several times in an effort to reduce nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

And the announcement a month later of a non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union gave Tokyo even more cause for concern.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

In nineteen forty-four, delegates from the United States, Britain,the Soviet Union and China met at Dumbarton Oaks.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

She took pictures of peasant women, village children, and even the mother of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The base played a part in the nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.06.30