Moscow also knows that Cambodia is an impediment to improving U.S.-Soviet relations.
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The United States must stop making preservation of the Gorbachev regime and the pursuit of arms control the driving force behind U.S.-Soviet relations.
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It does not necessarily follow from the proposition that U.S.-Soviet relations are improving that the international environment is actually becoming safer for peace-loving nations.
The threat that such negotiations are a precondition for other talks or decisive to the future course of U.S.-Soviet relations should be dismissed out of hand.
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My views on the wisdom and utility of the Trade Agreement are informed by fifteen years of work on U.S.-Soviet relations, initially as a member of the staff of Senator Henry M.
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We have recognized that the hostility that characterized US and Soviet relations during the Cold War has ended, hostility that was enshrined in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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The address on March 14th by Deputy Secretary of Energy Henson Moore before the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations entitled, "Soviet Energy in the 1990s" offers an excellent opportunity to illuminate for the public the results of such cabinet-level deliberations as well as U.S. objectives for the forging of "risk-sensitive" alliance policies.
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The issue of Soviet-American relations is in essence a test of the overall worth of the United States as a nation among nations.
While less well understood, the Non-Aggression Pact is also relevant to the contemporary international environment because it was in considerable measure the product of a German-Soviet commercial relationship that is structurally similar to current FRG-Soviet trade and financial relations.
This was in 1928, and the United States did not have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
In fact those relationships go back to the early 1990s when South Korea reestablished diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
He convinced Khomeini to end the Iran-Iraq war and broke Iran's international isolation by establishing trade relations with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Arguably, had their advice concerning relations with the Soviet Union, reducing American forces in Europe, canceling military modernization programs, arms control, etc. been heeded at the time, the outcome might well have been different.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
The high stakes for Western security require that the new President and his team make the adoption of a more disciplined and prudent approach to economic and financial relations with the Soviet Bloc one of the first goals of the "comprehensive reassessment" of U.S. foreign and defense policy upon which they have just embarked.
Western governments, particularly that of Germany, knowingly politicized financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
Incredible as it may seem, Western governments and banks chronically ignored established and disciplined lending techniques in their financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, relations between the US and Soviet Union were eased when Cliburn won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the age of 23.
When much of America was shaken by the Russian success with the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, Gore was part of a small delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that toured the Soviet Union.
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Relations between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have been tense for some time.
Russia holds over 200, 000 items of "trophy art", an issue which as dogged German-Russian relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
There was inherent drama in Brandt's career, as he "normalized" relations with East Germany and the Soviet bloc, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.
The diplomatic maneuvers and the public relations contest between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early years of the space race provide a vivid historical example of mutual noise making.
At the moment, the Administration's determination to accommodate Mr. Yeltsin is on display in its insistence that Congress dismantle virtually the entirety of five decades of legislation governing relations between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
More strangely still, Mr. Theroux says little about the fraught relations between ethnic Estonians and the large Russian minority that Soviet rule left behind.
Gallup surveys of public opinion in ex-Soviet republics found that there were large constituencies in favor of good relations with both the U.S. and Russia, but that pluralities or majorities tended to prefer good relations with Russia even if these good relations came at the expense of ties with America.
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In 1955, after talks between the Soviet Union and West Germany, the two sides agreed to establish diplomatic relations.
Their real problem is relations with Russia, which has still not formally recognised the post-Soviet borders and imposes extra tariffs on most Baltic exports.
Relations became deeply strained in the 1960s, and did not improve until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
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