No Russian (or Soviet) leader had ever made the provocative trip; it caught the Japanese government embarrassingly off guard.

此前没有一个俄罗斯（或前苏联国家）的领导人敢做出这么激进的举动，这着实杀了日本一个措手不及。

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Mr Krepon says that though similarly alarming conclusions could have been drawn from American or Soviet military literature in the cold war, a space war never took place.

克里朋表示，尽管类似令人震惊的结论也可以从冷战时期美国或苏联的军事文学中找出来，但太空战从来没有发生。

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Find a building site anywhere in the former Soviet Union or across the Middle East, and you will find Turkish suppliers and companies-and Turkish workers, too.

无论是在前苏联，还是中东地区，任指一处建筑工地，你都会找到土耳其的供应商和公司，还有土耳其籍的工人。

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Unlike history texts promoted by former President Viktor Yushchenko, those of the Soviet era ignored or condemned Ukrainians who fought against Russian or Soviet imperial rule.

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The reason the mafia thrives in countries where it's hard to write legal contracts-- let's say some new parts of the former Soviet Union or some parts of Africa the reason the mafia thrives in those environments, is that it substitutes for the law and enforces both legal and illegal contracts.

黑恶势力在那些,书面协议不受保护国家不断壮大,比如前苏联新成员国 或者非洲,为什么黑恶势力在这些地方发展壮大,因为这是法律强制力的补充,它维系所有合同,不管是不是合法的

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In nine Olympic Games since ice dancing debuted in 1976, but two golds have gone to Russian, Soviet or Russian-based teams.

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Migration, for example, is a major issue in Russia, which has the most immigrants in the world after the U.S. Current estimates range from seven million to twelve million, many of them from the North Caucasus or former Soviet republics like Tajikistan.

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