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Baroness Ashton of Upholland’s past came back to haunt her yesterday when the European Union’s new foreign affairs chief was forced to deny taking funds from the Soviet Union during her days as treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Full Article at Times Online
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On this day - Evolution Day; Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (1867), in Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the... Full Article at NW Republican
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The monument of World War II Soviet Union Heroes is seen splashed with red paint in Bucharest September 12, 2009. View Photo »
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This is not the old Soviet Union ... Those days are over. Certainly we're not going to abdicate our responsibility to him to unilaterally do what he sees fit.
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By Jonathan Cheng HONG KONG—The Hong Kong stock exchange's listing committee is scheduled to review an application by Russian mining company UC Rusal on Thursday, a potential landmark issuance that could complicate the exchange's attempts to beef up... Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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It is 20 years now since a series of events began in Europe that culminated in the fall of the Soviet Union and the dictatorial governments in numerous other neighboring countries, and the European Commission has produced a series of eleven... Full Article at Calitics
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A few nights ago when I was in Moscow, one of my friends reminded me that the first anniversary of Boris Fyodorov's death was approaching. We started remembering his extraordinary life, which ended prematurely from a stroke at the age of 50. Full Article at Peterson Institute
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Municipality workers clean the monument of World War II Soviet Union Heroes after it was splashed with red paint in Bucharest September 12, 2009. View Photo »
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As the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of winter, the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union appear particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus. Burdened with weak health-care systems, relatively inexperienced news media outlets and shaky governments that have little public ...
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Helsinki's designers have always been central to its culture. But after the collapse of the neighboring Soviet Union, with whom Finland shared a special trade agreement, its economy faltered. Full Article at Fast Company
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Baroness Ashton said she had no contacts with the Soviet Union and had never accepted mony from Moscow Photo: JEFF GILBERT Lady Ashton, who was last week appointed EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, was treasurer of CND in the early 1980s. Full Article at The Telegraph
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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. Full Article
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Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, left, seen next to Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, with former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, on the right, at the end of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament 'Overcoming Nuclear Dangers', at the Italian foreign min...
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Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, left, shakes hands with former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, with ex-Sen. Sam Nunn, second from left, in the background, at the end of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament 'Overcoming Nuclear Dangers', at the Italian foreign...
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From left, Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and ex-Sen. Sam Nunn react at the end of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament 'Overcoming Nuclear Dangers', at the Italian foreign min...
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From left, Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and ex-Sen. Sam Nunn shake hands at the end of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament 'Overcoming Nuclear Dangers', at the Italian forei...
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Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, foreground, standing, smiles as he talks to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, bottom left, prior to the conference on nuclear disarmament "Overcoming Nuclear Dangers", at the Italian foreign ministry headquarters, in Rome,Thu...
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People walk in front of portraits of slain Soviet border guards during a meeting marking the 40th anniversary of armed clashes along the Ussuri River on Damansky Island (Zhenbao Island) in the town of Dalnerechensk, some 420 km (261 miles) from Vladivostok, March 14, 2009.
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The Soviet Union's victory parade over Nazi Germany that took place on June 24, 1945 at Moscow's Red Square is seen on a screen as a Reichsadler, the symbol of Nazi Germany's Third Reich is seen with a broken swastika at the exhibition 'Flagge zeigen' (Show the national flag), the Germa...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Polish President Lech Walesa and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (R-L) speak as they walk through the Bornholmer Bridge (Bornholmer Bruecke) in Berlin November 9, 2009, during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall o...
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Yu-Na Kim of Korea skates her routine during practice November 13, 2009 for Skate America, the 2009 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series in Lake Placid, New York.
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This is not the old Soviet Union ... Those days are over. Certainly we're not going to abdicate our responsibility to him to unilaterally do what he sees fit.
– Dean Skelos SOURCE: New York Daily News -
As the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of winter, the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union appear particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus. Burdened with weak health-care systems, relatively inexperienced news media outlets and shaky governments that have little public ...
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The West is leading today, so the countries of the former Soviet Union want to see themselves as a part of Europe
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If communist parties in the former Soviet Union and China could hold general conventions even during political turmoil and upheaval, why can´t we?
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That’s what it was like 40 years ago in Moscow: wearing a talit and carrying a sefer Torah in public could get you arrested. But that was the Soviet Union, a repressive totalitarian state; this is Israel in the 21st century!
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Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister... proposed that the Soviet Union... guarantee Bulgaria's frontiers, despite already having taken a large share of Bulgarian territory...
SOURCE: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal -
returns to look at the situation [in the Soviet Union] 20 years later as well as discuss the economic situation in the United States.
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There are people who are called back who fought on behalf of the people of Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, who fought against al-Qaida and the Taliban and their allies
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thought that managed to drive scores of youths to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union in the '70s, and which is still nestled in many parts of the Middle East ... The difference here is that he gave these sermons in the U.S., where it's unheard-of, while in the Arab world it's the norm.
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The most significant event, without any doubts, was that independent television appeared at all ... After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian TV-market started to develop, and managed to become one of the most dynamic markets in Europe.
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Oil deliveries also came from Dubai, Angola, Nigeria, Ecuador, Brunei and the Soviet Union
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a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire.’ He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite effective. Same thing with __ I would characterize it like that again, in a heartbeat.
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The Soviet Union and in East Berlin and all those places. They built these ... very ugly high-rise apartments, and they jammed people into these.
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Doctors blame the news media and politicians for spreading fear and misinformation. Others point to more remote causes, among them the desperate poverty of Ukraine's health care system 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed
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Ask Ghengis Khan and Alexander the Great. Ask King George V of Britain or Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union.
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For the GOP leader, transit evokes East Berlin and the Soviet Union. For me it evokes London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Copenhagen…
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The triumphal school fails to explain the connection between Reagan’s speech and the events of 1989 ... Even more problematically, the triumphal school ignores Reagan’s actual policies toward the Soviet Union at the time of the Berlin Wall speech.
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The European Union should stop working like the former Soviet Union
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Twenty years ago this week ... the Berlin Wall came tumbling down ... The USA won the Cold War with the Soviet Union and communism due to the Armed Forces of the USA and NATO allies standing on guard ready at a moment's notice.
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Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor
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it’s an honorable place to work ... And the KGB, I think was an honorable place to work. It gave people in the former Soviet Union, a communist country, an opportunity to do something important and worthwhile.
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The dismantling of socialism in the Soviet Union, the disintegration of the USSR, the collapse of the communist-led regimes in east Europe and the process of restoration of capitalism in these countries -- all constitute a big reversal for the world forces of socialism
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difficult to convince our friends in Eastern Europe that being a communist in Italy in the 1980s was different from being a member of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
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You designed an outstanding weapon, which has been used in the former Soviet Union, Russia and many foreign states for decades ... Your whole life has been dedicated to the military might of the country.
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