It will replace the Soviet-era Ignalina plant, which is due to be shut down in 2009.
Lithuania had to shut its Soviet-era plant there as a condition of joining the European Union.
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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.
By December 1992 Mr Gaidar had lost his job at the hands of the Duma, Russia's Soviet-era parliament.
Erarta occupies a Soviet-era building on a still-gentrifying stretch of prime post-industrial real estate on the tony Vasilyevsky Island.
The deal assures supplies of crude oil for Mazeikiu through the Soviet-era pipelines which tie it still to Russia.
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Scaramella served with Litvinenko on an Italian parliamentary probe of alleged links between Italian politicians and the Soviet-era KGB.
Analysts believe the Shenzhou spacecraft that China is developing is an enlarged copy of the Soviet-era workhorse - the Soyuz.
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union regional GDP has fallen by 68% as Soviet-era subsidies have ground to a halt.
For the many Russians making Soviet-era goods that were unsalable at any price, barter became a way of restoring price flexibility.
Since the Soviet-era state was split into constituent parts in 1993, both the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been successful in canoeing.
It was closed for six years after weathering Soviet-era neglect, a late 90s economic crisis, and a resulting diminished star quality.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Soviet-era President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair are all expected to attend, he added.
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.
Russia, its government was at pains to point out, defaulted on its old Soviet-era debt, not its recent obligations under a new regime.
Some of them are economic, such as the renegotiation or forgiveness of Soviet-era debt, as well as faster entry into the World Trade Organization.
The Georgian government, however, is unperturbed by the critics, saying the move makes a clean break from the brutalist Soviet-era architecture that dominates Tbilisi.
Although Mr Putin had a well-publicised lunch with the doyen of Soviet-era Jewish refusniks, Natan Sharansky, anti-Semitism in Russia provokes rather mild official objections.
From forgotten toys in kindergartens to the ubiquitous, fading Soviet-era propaganda, a stroll through Pripyat feels very much like being on the set of a Hollywood post-apocalypse movie.
Nestled in a crater, the Soviet-era cluster bomb failed to detonate.
The person Shamsaddinov fought with was parked by the side of the road in a Soviet-era Zhiguli, the ubiquitous model favored for cheapness rather than quality.
Unlike other pet-tracking devices, which can look like decommissioned Soviet-era spy gear, Tagg's waterproof transmitter is thin, light and styled to match Fido's and Whisker's high-tech lifestyles.
It is a pity that Mr Siegelbaum's book has such poor photographs: for those who never experienced the true horrors of Soviet-era motoring, words are not enough.
For his part, Mr Bozhkov is in charge of getting closer to Brussels, and persuading foreign investors that some of Bulgaria's crumbling Soviet-era industrial companies are worth buying.
Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday.
Massive networks of soviet-era pipelines are still supplying a large chunk of their natural gas requirements, and now these countries want to break free from this energy dependency.
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Armani-clad hustlers share streets with farmers wearing thick, Soviet-era suits.
Compared with the wordy open letters and principled stands of the Soviet-era dissidents who still dominate Russian civil society, it is all very 21st-century, as is Mr Shvedov's language.
When the economy began to recover from the crisis of the late 1990s, Russians, scornful of their own car industry's Soviet-era products, began buying ever more used imported cars.
It is this latter subject - both with regard to the lessons of Soviet-era and Russian experience - that I would like to concentrate on during the balance of these remarks.
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