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.
Out of 19 attempted missions, Russia and the former Soviet Union have had only a few partial successes.
The Tsarnaev family's connection with Russia is complex because of the intricate patchwork of ethnicities that comprises Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Of course, these limitations did not keep the Soviet Union and, after its demise, Russia from putting into place a territorial anti-missile system.
Some of their radars are not even in Russia, due to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the satellites in their warning network are starting to fail.
What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 some of its newly independent states copied Russia and had a stab at democracy.
Businessmen who came to be known as oligarchs amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Despite the fact that after the collapse of the Soviet Union many scientists and technologists left the country seeking opportunities abroad, Russia still remains strong in scientific education and human potential.
The case raised a public curtain on the world of Russia's oligarchs, those who amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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According to Alexei Yablokov, a noted scientist who used to advise President Boris Yeltsin on ecology and now heads a pressure group, Russia's security services remember and resent the role that greens played in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Russia can make mischief, but it cannot project military and ideological power all around the world, as the Soviet Union did during the cold war.
And the May 9th commemoration in Russia is so important because it reminds us of the extraordinary sacrifices that the then-Soviet Union made and the strength of the alliance between the U.S. and the Russian people.
Even without the fall of the Berlin Wall, and under Mikhail Gorbachev's new management, the Soviet Union would have struggled in vain (Russia struggles still) to adapt this behemoth to the information age and the microchip.
The oil, competition with Russia for influence in the former Soviet Union, plus Azerbaijan's strategic location, might suggest that America and the European Union should be content with Mr Aliev and the stability he seems to offer.
Just how much so readers will learn from Martin Gilman's account of Russia's fitful, often stumbling economic reforms in the short decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's default on its domestic debt in 1998.
Russia's grip on the oil and gas of Central Asia and the Caucasus loosened after the break up of the Soviet Union.
Legislator Vladimir Ryzhkov agrees Russia today is not the Soviet Union, under which Party officials decided even such matters as whether to allow husbands and wives to divorce.
After the 14 non-Russian republics of the old Soviet Union went their ways, Russia was left with more than a score of autonomous ethnically named regions and republics.
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