The Americans' influence may be more durable in the poorer parts of the old Soviet empire.
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There is a problem of, as its called, loose nukes in the former Soviet empire.
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The end of the Soviet empire has also required filmmakers to find new categories of villains.
Putin has worked hard these past four years to recapture positions that Russia lost when the Soviet empire disintegrated.
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Russia is bringing similar pressure to bear on Azerbaijan, Ukraine (1) and other parts of the former Soviet empire.
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As of April 1994, over 10, 000 current and prospective leaders in the old Soviet empire have successfully completed the Institute's seminars.
Russia, meanwhile, has offered a reminder that Kazakhstan, like the rest of Central Asia, used to be part of the Soviet empire.
Of more longer-run concern would be a rejection of particpation in a European market economy by the now-independent states of the old Soviet empire.
Since the Soviet empire collapsed, he observed, the world changed far more radically than our own defense doctrines, institutions, equipment and alliances had changed.
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Second, it is now clear from archival material emerging from the old Soviet empire that the quote was wrong even if it had applied only to the immediate post-war era.
The Clinton Administration esentially capitulated to Russia's demands today, proposing instead of membership for newly democratic nations of the old Soviet empire an ambiguous "limited partnership" with NATO for virtually any country who wants one -- including Russia.
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He goes on to argue, in a sweep that extends to Russia's privatisation programmes and left-over Russian communities in every last corner of the ex-Soviet empire, that the failure in Chechnya was symptomatic of a wider decline in Russia.
First, the global economic playing field is being leveled, and millions of people who were out of the game - from China, India and the former Soviet empire - are now walking onto the field, each dreaming of a house, a car, a toaster and a microwave.
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But his main expertise, acquired over decades of scholarly study, is in the Soviet Union and its east European empire.
In this century alone, they have been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
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