Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post as leader of the USSR on Christmas Day, 1991.
Noting that the USSR may view these as propitious developments is not to suggest that Moscow is in every case responsible for bringing them about.
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On 5 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet approved a draft law which would transfer control of the KGB from the USSR Cabinet of Ministers to the USSR President and Supreme Soviet as well as provide legal immunity for KGB officers from Soviet citizens.
Germany has granted the USSR the right to continue to station as many as 380, 000 Soviet troops on former East German territory through 1994.
In fact, it now appears that this pessimistic view has become the consensus position of those who influence policy, even such figures as George Kennan whose proclivity for "best-case" assessments of the USSR is well-established.
Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
For the first time since the break-up of the USSR, the national side reached the knockout stages of an international tournament as they dispatched the Netherlands on their way to the European Championship semi-finals.
Do their institutions regard full economic and financial data disclosure (regarding, for example, Moscow's remaining strategic gold reserves) as essential to any informed assessments of the advisability of Western economic and financial assistance to the USSR -- and will they demand that such data be provided by the Soviet Union by year-end?
The IMF-led study commissioned last July by the Houston economic summitteers was originally intended (at least by the United States, Great Britain and Japan) to serve as a more analytically rigorous assessment of the wisdom of providing taxpayer-guaranteed assistance to the USSR at this time -- a hedge against precipitous aid flows already initiated by Germany, Italy, and others.
Official Russian history asserts that Stalin believed that Germany, even if it were to emerge from war as a victor, would be so exhausted that it would be unable to wage war with the USSR for at least a decade.
The country's role as an offshore tax haven dates back to 1982 when the island signed a tax treaty with the USSR - which has allowed Russian businessmen to completely avoid paying tax on the profits their businesses make in their home country.
Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty of 1972 between the United States and the USSR lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
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