Staff Sergeant JASON RICHTER (U.S. Marine Corps): They've had a lot of exposure to the Soviet style and philosophy of military thinking, which is very different from Western style.

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Only very gradually has his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, begun to make moves to release the country from its self-imposed, Soviet-style isolation.

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Last month, Mr Putin spoke out publicly against what many here see as a Soviet-style personality cult building up around him.

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The Romanian economy was plundered by the Soviet-style nomenklatura, and by the corrupt family of Romania's cruel, idiosyncratic dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.

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The 1.85m-high Soviet-style, red black and yellow acrylic painting has been sold.

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They used to be a more Soviet-style central planning economy.

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In part, observes Thane Gustafson, of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, this is because many of the firms are now controlled by financiers rather than Soviet-style oil bosses.

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In 1992 he became Russia's prime minister, and control of Gazprom was assumed by his deputy, Rem Vyakhirev, a chain-smoking Soviet-style bureaucrat, whose first name stood for Revolution, Engels, Marx.

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The power issues spell more trouble for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who heads the Congress Party-led coalition government and was the architect of the 1991 reforms that ended years of Soviet-style economic planning.

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Half a dozen Kyrgyz generals, wearing Soviet Army-style uniforms, saluted.

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