KGB, which Mr Aliev headed before he became Azerbaijan's boss under Leonid Brezhnev three decades ago.
But Russia does not pose the existential threat to America that Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union once did.
Was the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev really just an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one?
It is reported to be the largest such exercise since the dying days of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982.
And let's not forget that Leonid Brezhnev launched proxy wars against U.S. friends in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Rostropovich also took chances politically, in the controlling atmosphere of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, which ended up getting him into trouble.
With these words, Mr. Reagan challenged the Faustian deal struck eleven years earlier by Richard Nixon with his Soviet counterpart, Leonid Brezhnev.
Thanks to Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet oil and gas geopolitical project.
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Many Russians believed him, perhaps even Leonid Brezhnev, the then Soviet leader.
Which President Nixon had signed with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.
Though Mr. Reagan rejected his predecessor's "arms control process, " symbolized by the hug Mr. Carter gave Leonid Brezhnev when they signed SALT II, Mr. Reagan did not reject diplomacy.
In September 1978, Kennedy traveled to Moscow for a meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to urge him to let the Katz family -- or at the very least, Jessica -- leave the country immediately.
The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
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