The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 housed about 5, 000 people during the Cold War but was abandoned over a decade ago after the Russian military withdrew from Latvia following the Soviet collapse.

过去冷战期间，约5 000人定居于这曾名为斯库纳达一号（Skrunda-1）的小镇；不过十多年前苏联解体后俄军撤离拉脱维亚，该镇也随之遭遇受人遗弃的命运。

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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia took over the operation of Mir.

1991年苏联解体，俄罗斯接管了和平号空间站的工作。

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But Nye says the choices made by Mikhail Gorbachev following his 1985 appointment as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party hastened the collapse.

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Boris Berezovsky amassed a fortune in the 1990s after the privatisation of state assets following the collapse of Soviet communism.

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Karachay-Cherkessia gained republic status in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

BBC: Karachay-Cherkessia profile

Michael Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity in London, told the Times that it rivaled the precipitous seven-year drop in life expectancy among Russian men in the turbulent years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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