This Kosovar tycoon made his fortune as a builder in Russia and the former Soviet Union and has plastered Kosovo with posters of the Kremlin and other buildings he worked on, stating how many Kosovars he employed on each.
However, Belarus has been able to overcome some of these economic difficulties due to its key location as a transit route for the raw material transported between Russia and other former Soviet Republics to Western Europe, and to large Russian subsidies.
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Relations between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have been tense for some time.
Out of 19 attempted missions, Russia and the former Soviet Union have had only a few partial successes.
Lately he has expanded his Chabad initiatives, once confined to Russia and other former Soviet republics, to the West.
The Tsarnaev family's connection with Russia is complex because of the intricate patchwork of ethnicities that comprises Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The current rise in food commodity prices, in part due to poor conditions in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, may further intensify this trend.
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But Kosovo's few Serb leaders with the nerve to stay behind now seem likely to spurn the council, largely because western forces (plus a small number from Russia and the former Soviet Union) seem unable, so far, to stem a steady wave of revenge killings by Albanians.
Manchurian-born Tretchikoff escaped from Soviet Russia and emigrated to South Africa after World War II.
The vast majority come from Russia's ex-Soviet neighbours, where living standards fell further and faster when the Soviet economy disintegrated than in Russia itself.
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Another source might be Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet-block countries, which have plenty of helicopters, but have so far offered few of them.
Many of the known thefts or attempted thefts of the most dangerous nuclear materials have taken place in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
This slight culminated in a more fundamental failure: while America was still hoping that Mr Gorbachev could reform the Soviet system, Russia and the rest were declaring independence.
In the very early days after the Soviet collapse, Russia and some of its neighbours swarmed with Western advisers, disseminating not only the basics of market economics but also the mechanics of multi-party democracy.
His broad conclusion (and the posthumously delivered verdict of Nixon) is that American policy towards post-Soviet Russia has at once been too soft and too tough.
The road, built in 1875 and modernised in Soviet times, is now the main artery between Russia and Georgia.
Pot 2 comprises three-time champions Germany, 1968 winners Italy, England and Russia -- who as the Soviet Union won the first tournament held in 1960.
As Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union move their economies away from the inefficient autarky of the Soviet era towards a more efficient integration with the world economy, considerations of trade and investment will prevail over other forces.
The Nabucco pipeline was supposed to bypass both Iran and Russia and increase instead gas exports from the former Soviet republics to Europe.
Simple: the Cold War and the arms race with Soviet Russia.
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He supported Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president, and was an early backer of Putin.
The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.
Tourism is growing, a major source being Russia and several other countries that emerged from the defunct Soviet Union.
According to the feds, most of the defendants were born in the former Soviet Union and regularly traveled to Russia and Ukraine.
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According to longstanding principles of international law, when one country has a bilateral treaty with another and is then "succeeded" by a different state (as Russia has succeeded to the rights and duties of the Soviet Union under a number of treaties), the bilateral treaty remains in effect only if both states so affirm--the new state and its predecessor's treaty partner.
As the foreign-ministry document asserts, Russia needs to consolidate the former Soviet space by, for example, pushing the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
At the other end of the scale are former Soviet countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
His PT Primacomexindo is a major trading company not only in Russia but also in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
He pioneered the oil trade with Russia, bartering drill pipe, petrochemicals and engineering services to the Soviet Union in exchange for crude.
Only Tatyana Kazankina of the Soviet Union in 1976 and Svetlana Masterkova of Russia in 1996 have previously managed the tough double.
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