Since the fall of the Soviet Union regional GDP has fallen by 68% as Soviet-era subsidies have ground to a halt.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Berezovsky built his fortune by gaining effective control of Russia's largest Soviet-era car maker, Avtovaz.
He was in voluntary exile from that country for many years but was able to return after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Cuba faces the return of the frequent power cuts that were common in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, its hitherto paymaster.
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Businessmen who came to be known as oligarchs amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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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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The case raised a public curtain on the world of Russia's oligarchs, those who amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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What is interesting is that after the fall of the Soviet Union and the halt in their economic support, Cuba's economy (according to a February 23, 2008 report in the Economist) shrank by 35 percent.
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Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union however, with the resulting massive increases in trade and overall interdependence between nations, and the advent of the internet, with its electronic banking and finance, all this has completely changed.
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These changes can be traced to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, events that forever altered America's role in Europe and the world.
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In September 1956, the Boston Symphony was the first major U.S. orchestra to visit the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and in the fall of 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra made an unprecedented trip to China.
Even without the fall of the Berlin Wall, and under Mikhail Gorbachev's new management, the Soviet Union would have struggled in vain (Russia struggles still) to adapt this behemoth to the information age and the microchip.
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