Even in the Soviet period, such exotic-sounding drinks were a welcome exception amid dismally low standards.
His memoirs, published first in the Soviet period and in a less censored edition after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.
He has been in office since the Soviet period, and had his first term extended, by referendum, from 1995 to 2000.
The new ruling class did not seek approval from Tbilisi's intelligentsia, which had become enormously powerful in the late Soviet period.
Chechens paid a stiff price for their nationalism in the Soviet period.
Most of Kazakhstan's military equipment dates back to the Soviet period.
"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.
The self-styled Father of all Turkmens has constructed a personality cult around himself harking back to the Soviet period and tolerates no opposition to his rule.
Both have large Muslim populations and are tied together through shared ethnic, cultural, religious and historical bonds acting in unison during much of the Soviet and post-Soviet period.
In the worst repressions of the Soviet period the label "foreign agents" was used to denounce dissidents - or simply political rivals of Joseph Stalin - and could lead to execution.
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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.
She takes the story right up to the end of the Soviet period, and she has made good use of published material and archives which have become available only in the last ten years or so.
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.
President MIKHAIL SAKASHVILI (Georgia): I think it's one of the last legacies of Soviet period, the presence of former Soviet and present Russian troops, and so in these circumstances, when one of the last legacies of the Soviet totalitarian domination here in this part of the world has not been liquidated, I would rather stay here.
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.
The potential for cost-avoidance and cost-reduction inherent in the technologies being decontrolled can also have great significance for the Soviet armed forces in a period of ostensible budgetary austerity.
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.
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.
Two years later, the same period was selected to implement the Soviet-sponsored imposition of martial law in Poland.
Promote full data disclosure for all Western financial flows to Warsaw Pact countries and Soviet client states, including historical data covering the period 1978 through 1988.
As I say, the real issue on this to me is the fact that it evokes a period of in the past where the Soviet security service had a reputation for engaging in pretty hardball tactics.
For that matter, at least in the Soviet bloc, it is evident that expanding economic ties -- "commercial bridge-building" as it was termed during the failed period of U.S.-Soviet detente in the 1970s -- does not ensure either that internal repression is mitigated or that the foreign adventurism of communist states will be attenuated.
For that matter, at least in the Soviet bloc, it is evident that expanded economic ties or "commercial bridge-building" as it was termed during the failed period of U.S.-Soviet detente in the 1970s do not ensure either that internal repression is mitigated or that the foreign adventurism of communist states will be attenuated.
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The murder and expulsion of the brightest and wealthiest landowners, especially during the Stalinist period, is still acutely felt in former Soviet lands.
With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the over 30 year long period of MAD between the two greatest powers on Earth ended.
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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.
Changed Circumstances: Second, I believe that Scoop Jackson would be appalled at the prospect that the United States government would press forward with a Trade Agreement signed over fifteen months ago with the ancien Soviet regime as though nothing had happened in the intervening period.
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Ministries built in Ethiopia's Marxist period (1974-91) were kit models from 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.
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