When the Iron Curtain lifted, we expanded our alliance to include the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, and built new bridges to Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.
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Now that many of its beneficiaries notably Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are probably only a few years from joining the European Union, the bank needs to shift its attention eastwards, with rather more emphasis on countries such as Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.
From 1995 to 1998, he served as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.
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Of the 438 nuclear reactors in operation worldwide, the most are in North America, Western Europe and Japan, with a smattering in the states of the former Soviet Union.
Actually, whether intended as such or not, building reactors of this design known as VVERs amounts to an act of incredible malevolence toward the United States on the part of the Soviet Union.
Witness Russia's insistence on March 5th that Boris Berezovsky, reputedly the richest and most powerful of the oligarchs, be sacked as secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the ailing heir of the Soviet Union.
"It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies, " he wrote.
This "mirror-image" approach to reductions in national security export controls wholly misrepresents the relative value of Soviet high technology to the West versus that of the United States to the Soviet Union.
His main official post was running the Commonwealth of Independent States, a zombie-like shadow of the Soviet Union.
Growing anti-Russian feeling was also on the rise, worrying those who had settled in the Baltic states from other parts of the Soviet Union.
"The common determination on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to preserve the territorial integrity of such imperial accidents of history as Yugoslavia -- to say nothing of the USSR and Iraq -- under centralized, totalitarian rule is emerging as the ironic definition of the so-called 'New World Order, '" said Frank J.
On the other hand, the Russian Federation and Commonwealth of Independent States have seen a sharp drop since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, due to the falling number of researchers and their ageing, while Russian universities struggle to attract new talent.
At the same time, both the United States and China were wary of the Soviet Union's military power and expansionist agenda.
The three Baltic states, all former members of the Soviet Union, had no connections to the wider European energy grid until this week.
Through the device of prohibiting effective defenses against ballistic missiles, the ABM Treaty's drafters hoped to institutionalize the principle of mutual vulnerability, a "balance of terror" in which the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union are perpetual hostages.
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She said other nations were increasingly employing cyber attacks without "any sense of restraint, " citing "reckless" behaviors that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union would have dared at the height of Cold War tensions.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the maximum challenge the United States faced came from regional adversaries on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
The Obama administration is, nonetheless, seeking no funds for replacing existing weapons with designs that include modern safety features, let alone ones that are more suited to the deterrent missions of today - against states like North Korea and Iran, rather than the hardened silos of the Soviet Union.
The Cuban missile crisis was one of the most serious security crises of the past century, a situation that, if handled poorly, really could have led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and the end of human civilization.
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the principal foreign policy and intelligence institutions of the United States considered that communism had disappeared.
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Fifty years ago today, the President of the United States grimly contemplated the possibility of global nuclear war as he entered a showdown with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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The proper policy of the United States, therefore, was vigilance against allowing opportunities to arise for the Soviet Union to take advantage of.
As vividly depicted in the attached column by William Safire published in today's New York Times, Gorbachev is presently acting as the spoiler, the obstacle to the consolidation of a Commonwealth of Independent States -- a free alliance of sovereign nations explicitly designed to replace and terminate the old Soviet Union.
Accelerating the transformation of the New York representative office of the Soviet Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs into a full-fledged banking office, thereby enabling the Soviet Union to engage in a wide range of banking activities in the United States and increase Soviet personnel, including KGB presence, in New York.
As long as the use of force was not considered imminent, the differences between the Soviet Union and the United States were easily glossed over or obscured by the novelty of those points on which they were in agreement....Now that the main issue is whether to use force, the nuances can no longer be hidden.
Trade and credit agreements between the individual reformist republics of the Soviet Union and the United States.
Pakistan began its patronage of such groups with the enthusiastic backing of the United States in 1979, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
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