But Soviet diplomats were shy to report on America's bounding prosperity, its expanding middle-class largely disinterested in politics.
UN's secretary-general in 1981, but the Soviet Union vetoed his candidature, claiming he was too pro-western, and vetoed him again in 1991.
But the Soviet Union is looking to the United States to do more: Moscow expects nothing less than a U.S. "seal of approval" for financial assistance to the Soviet Union.
In 1986, the U.S. Navy had replaced the Royal Navy as Number One Fleet, and badly outgunned the Soviets, but the Soviet Navy still posed a significant challenge to Western dominance of the seas.
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But the Soviet-built trans-Siberian railway is broad-gauge.
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The declaration was passed unopposed, but the entire Soviet block abstained, along with Saudi Arabia.
But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the market for Bulgaria's produce went with it.
But like other Soviet legacies, the institutionalized military nature of Russian society remained ready to be resurrected.
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Iran is defended, but mainly by Soviet-era surface-to-air missiles of a kind the Israelis have dealt with before.
For those who have done less well than Ms Guseva over the past 12 years but still remember Soviet times, the 1990s are becoming less relevant.
Russia has kept its military presence not just in Georgia but in other former Soviet republics.
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It was once a top secret Soviet facility but today it is the biggest uranium production factory in Kazakhstan.
The economy all but collapsed after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
But with an outdated Soviet arsenal and a creaking economy, Syria is not quite strong enough to stand on its own.
But if reports about Soviet nuclear waste being dumped prove true, then Russia will have even more accusations of pollution to answer.
The process of change in the Soviet Union involves high stakes, not only for the Soviet Union but also for the West.
The late fighter had excelled at mixed martial arts since moving to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union but recently had suffered a knee injury, Mr. Taramov said.
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And just to take one example, in that respect, at Lisbon, NATO agreed on a new strategic concept where different nations would develop different capabilities that could be brought to bear so that NATO is no longer an alliance built to simply repel a Soviet invasion but can meet new threats, whether they come from ballistic missiles or cyber attacks or terrorism.
But continued upheaval in the Soviet Union has led to growing worries about a possible default.
It brought to a halt the massive German advance into the Soviet Union, but at tremendous human cost.
But the debacle of the Soviet Army's performance in Afghanistan in the 1980's largely put paid to this myth of invincibility.
His PT Primacomexindo is a major trading company not only in Russia but also in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Panasjuk was born in the former Soviet Union, but before its collapse moved to the U.S. with his mother to avoid wars in the region.
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The Gouzenkos' guardians were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the red-coated Mounties brilliant at horsemanship set to music, but with limited knowledge of Soviet assassins.
Some American banks did discuss the loans with Soviet officials, but the Americans wanted even higher interest rates than what the Europeans got, bank executives said.
The Ford staff pointed out that the president meant that Poland and Yugoslavia did not consider themselves part of the Soviet Union, but the damage was done.
Mr Nazarbaev's enthusiasm for the free market has put Kazakhstan among the economic leaders of former Soviet states, but so far the population has not benefited materially.
Genghis Khan by no means fits the pantheon of Soviet heroes, but he has remained a spiritual force for asserting the identity and independence of the Mongolians.
Mikhail Tal against Mikhail Botvinnik in the early 1960s had the same hallmarks of the non-Russian outsider against the Soviet stalwart, but failed to develop into a sustained struggle.
He said he moved to Chechnya with his family for a year in 1994 after the fall of the Soviet Union, but quickly returned to Kyrgyzstan after disliking the situation in his ethnic homeland.
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