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a very long-standing interest and success in investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime, which since the breakup of the Soviet Union is called Eurasian organized crime, and in particular in this defendant.

Algeria was Russia's traditional arms client in Soviet times, but after the breakup it switched to Ukraine and Belarus mainly, buying Su-27s and MiG-29s. This contract will be Russia's triumphant return to North Africa.

They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.

There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

It's a test for him -- whether he represents the old guard of the Soviet Union,

It's akin to the Soviet Politburo erasing people from photographs. The only reason we know most of these things are happening is that civil servants have observed these violations of the law and have bravely blown the whistle and told the press.

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. In one of the pictures in the bid you see palm trees and snow. The city is in the 50s in the winter and then you have better snow there than in Turin.

Its the difference between working in the Soviet economy which is command and control and the western European Economy. It's the difference between a computer and a brain.

It's going to be fairly expensive. I haven't seen any, you know, figures we have a high degree of confidence in. I do think there's a good chance it will be over $100 million, and in that case we have to consider what are the opportunity costs of doing that particular bit of work compared to other work (Cooperative Threat Reduction) or any other program is doing in the former Soviet Union, in Central Asia, or in any of the other places we're working.

It's hard to put into words. It's pretty similar to when Canada and the Soviet Union played the Summit Series. It's like that every time for us against them.

It sounds good, it sounds like talking tough. And there is definitely a constituency within the United States, particularly the Congress, that believes China is the new Soviet Union, the new enemy. But it only becomes the enemy if we make them one,

It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union,

Nothing has really changed. Moscow is an hour ahead of us, so under the Soviet Union we would watch the TV broadcast and listen to the ringing of the Kremlin's bells - the New Year in Russia doesn't begin until the Kremlin rings its bells. Then we would wait an hour and have our own celebration in Belarus. Everybody still celebrates like they did then.

I wanted to say in the Security Council, "There is no cause for alarm. The rumbling sound that you hear is the normal noise of the Soviet ambassador being lowered and locked into a fixed position." But I never got to say it, the time was never quite right.

I wanted to say in the Security Council, ""There is no cause for alarm. The rumbling sound that you hear is the normal noise of the Soviet ambassador being lowered and locked into a fixed position."" But I never got to say it, the time was never quite right.

I want to stress to you that all this needs to be done in a disciplined way, and that when people will be asking about me and writing about me, that all this be done in a responsible way. But if you write that I have said something against the Soviet government and said that it is better to work elsewhere, then I shall have difficulties back home.

The fastest spread of HIV is in eastern Europe, in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is mostly driven by a heroin epidemic... Russia alone has already well over one people living with HIV.

In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains the empowering potential of social networks.

I knew I wouldn't be allowed to succeed, so I decided to quit. Besides, at the time Soviet leaders considered tennis a bourgeois sport and we were not allowed to travel to the West and play against the best.

In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people themselves wanted. But for Russia to make that change was going to be one of the most remarkably difficult and complex passages imaginable.

I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.

If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia's ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.

If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.

In the Soviet Union, errors led to popular discontent among other reasons due to the bad performance of the economy.

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

In our factory the managers say if you want to go on working, you'd better vote for Lukashenko. It's the same dictatorship we had in Soviet times.

I have seen the future; and it works. (Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919)

In the United States alone, 350,000 Jews live below the poverty line and benefit from our dollars. In the former Soviet Union, 240,000 elderly people need our help just to have shelter, heat and food.

In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Pakistan and Turkey as a southward shield against Soviet expansion toward the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. It was part of the containment strategy.

If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles

He's our best, most complete player. Alex plays head to head against the top players and there are few No. 1 centers who are asked to play against the other team's No. 1 center. He's a good offensive player, but he's equally good defensively. He's a classic Russian center like they produced back in the Soviet Union days.

I don't know if it's probable, but it's possible. When you look back since the breakup of the Soviet Union, how many Olympic gold medals haven't they won?

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy

I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer

Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the destroyer of everything that generations and generations had built. But much of that was fueled in the '90s, as it played into the hands of Boris Yeltsin, his successor in government.

For our 1992 retrospective of Matisse, I'd traveled from Japan to Australia to Mexico to the Soviet Union and could not find this painting. So this summer, when the call came, I said, 'How could it be?

For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.

The new European Soviet.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

The growth for our sector will happen in the international markets -- particularly in emerging markets like China, like India, like the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

A good majority of Chinese leadership today were trained in the Soviet Union in the 1950s,

and not to forget the Muslim Afghan population who they assisted during their jihad against the Soviet occupation.

The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union,

The Chinese people will never forget the precious support offered by then Soviet people. The deep friendship between the Chinese and Russian people is our common treasure,

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!!

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?

I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.

The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted -- because everyone would join that party.

The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause.

In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, now you have these dispersed power centers, ... They are clearly still working out the kinks.

And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an act of barbarism born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate other nations.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!