The men met about 15 years ago, when Mr. Stepashin, then director of the Federal Security Service, presented Mr. Tolstoy with sheaves of family letters pulled out of Soviet intelligence files. Mr.

两人相识于十五年前，时任联邦安全部负责人的斯捷帕申，曾把从苏联情报文件中拣出的部分家族信件当作礼物，赠送给托尔斯泰先生。

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The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located just above the station.

俄罗斯联邦安全局(FSB，继承于苏联时代的克格勃)的总部，位于车站的上方。

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If these seem like momentous days, consider the year 1979: the second great oil shock, the ascension of Margaret Thatcher, the appointment of Paul Volcker to head the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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Military leaders protested that this was far too little to achieve foreign policy professed goals, while civilian leaders resisted militarizing the federal budget or economy as in Soviet times, according to Global Security.org.

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Moreover, U.S. firms may legitimately wonder why tax-dollars should be expended on supporting potential competitors (for example, in the Soviet space industry) when the federal government declines to help its own companies experiencing traumatic market shifts.

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