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

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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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The Clinton Administration perceived the Base Force as a temporary fix, designed largely to avoid precipitous actions in the period of uncertainty following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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That these countries have managed to remain intact and weather the economic, social and political storm following the collapse of the Soviet Union is therefore no small achievement.

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The two predecessor exchanges dated back to the presidency of Boris Yeltsin in the early-to-mid-1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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He then left Likud and founded his own party, Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), which became popular among the one million Russian-speaking Jews who came to Israel following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Many of these policies were adopted in the mid-1990s after Cuba's economy contracted by a third following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its former patron and protector.

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In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow following the collapse of a hardliners' coup.

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