"This practice was unfortunately quite well known and familiar from the Soviet period, when money was exchanged at certain ratios or not returned, " Mr Medvedev said.
This is mainly a legacy of Soviet mistrust, coupled with the very bad reputation that charities connected to military ex-servicemen, the Russian Orthodox church and sport gained in the immediate post-Soviet period.
The only avant-garde composer in a department still notorious for its conservatism (the famous troika of Denisov, Schnittke and Gubaidulina were personae non gratae during the Soviet period), Mr Tarnopolsky has been professor of composition since 1992.
The only country to have beaten the Soviet women in that period was Japan, the other powerhouse of the game in the 1960s and 70s.
After the island's so-called "special period, " which began in the early 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Cuba -- which had long enjoyed Soviet subsidies -- was confronted with a prolonged period of economic hardship.
Alliances: The United States should undertake special efforts to preserve and refurbish the American alliance arrangements in Europe and Asia during a period in which the Soviet threat appears ambiguous and in which economic nationalism, Soviet arms control proposals and other centrifugal influences are causing -- or exacerbating -- serious divisions within our Alliances.
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.
However, as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War structure collapsed, and the world economy entered an unprecedented period of globalization, the 1980s Japanese economy bubble burst.
The period being studied runs from the early 1950s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
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"Clearly, there needs to be a prolonged period of reassessment -- both with respect to the future direction of the Soviet Union and the ability of our allies to enforce existing export controls, " said Jennifer J.
The view of another senior Treasury official, Under Secretary David Mulford, (expressed on the record at the London Economic Summit) to the effect that a currency stabilization fund for the Soviet Union would not be possible for at least 2-3 years -- a period of sufficient duration to permit structural reforms to precede ruble convertibility, will probably go by the boards within 6-9 months.
Their haul included seven golds and in that period the men's team lost only six of their 43 outings, with the Soviet women going down on a mere three occasions in 33 matches.
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