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"It took me a little bit because I think in English now," he says. "For a week or two before the game I have to work on getting back into the Russian state of mind." His family moved in 1992, a year after the Soviet Union fell. But even as the USSR...
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A half-century after Glenns historic flight matched Russian exploits in the Space Race, America is paying the former Soviet Union to launch U.S. and partner-nation astronauts to the International Space Station. Shutting down shuttle operations was a...
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Veterans of the Soviet Union's war in Afganistan (1979-1989) attend on February 15, 2012 a memorial ceremony at the monument for those killed in the war in Kiev. Ukraine, Russia and other post Soviet countries mark the 23rd anniversary of the end of... View Photo »
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In its day, the station was the largest in the Soviet Union — prior to World War II
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He criticised dictator Gen Ziaul Haq for bringing millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan and fighting a proxy war of the West against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He called for effective steps to end the illegal entry of Afghan nationals into...
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Among Russian youth there was a black market for rock recordings. It took a bit of creativity to make these underground recordings, and one of the most common types was known as 'Records on Ribs'. Old x-rays were scavenged. Because of the thick plastic...
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Our number of warheads peaked at 12,000 in the late eighties. And let me tell you something. That number of nuclear warheads is what helped us win the Cold War. That number of nuclear warheads sent a message to every other nation, particularly at that...
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A veteran of the Soviet Union's war in Afganistan's (1979-1989) lays flowers to the monument for those killed in the war during a memorial ceremony in Kiev on February 15, 2012. Russia, Ukraine and other post Soviet countries mark the 23rd anniversary... View Photo »
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We have jointly embarked on great clandestine projects such as the U2 base in Peshawar in the late 1950s; Henry Kissinger's secret trip to Beijing from Islamabad in July 1971; the covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan that helped destroy the USSR in the 1980s; and the battle against al-Qaed...
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Had American leaders carefully reflected on the past two decades, they would have realized that they had lost two strategic opportunities to adapt to changes and the global power balance in time. The disintegration of the Soviet Union was the first...
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What perceived threat is there? Steinberg: This is a long standing policy that has been developing through the system going back quite some time, the idea that China in the aftermath of the end of the Soviet Union is the only large nation on the planet...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR) (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, CCCP (help·info)); tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It often was incorrectly... Full Article
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov holds a GM-94 grenade launcher as he visits a military harrison in the Chechnya's capital Grozny, on February 13, 2012. The Kremlin fought two wars against separatists in Chechnya after the fall of the Soviet Union but the rebellion then became more...
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John Paton Davies, Jr. , an American diplomat specializing in Asia and the Soviet Union before and during World War II and one of the most visible victims of the hysteria of McCarthyism, will have his autobiography published posthumously by the University of Pennsylvania Press on March 1,...
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Dancers of the Georgian National Ballet "Sukhishvili" rehearse in Tbilisi, January 26, 2012. It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian National Ballet...
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Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev gives the trophy to the World Women's Chess Champion to China's Yifan Hou (R) during a ceremony in Tirana on November 30, 2011. Gorbachev is in Tirana to hand over the winning medal of the Women's World Chess Championship to Hou Yifan.
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Ksenia Gorbacheva, grand daughter of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, attends a press confernce in Berlin, November 21, 2011. The former Soviet President and friends unveiled the Mikhail Gorbachev award to be presented in the German capital on March 20, 2012.
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KALININGRAD, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 28: A statue of 'Marshal of the Soviet Union' Alexsandr Vasilevsky is seen on October 28, 2011 in Kaliningrad, Russia. Kaliningrad is one of thirteen proposed host cities and 2018 will be the first time Russia has hosted the World Cup.
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