Under Mr Putin, Russia glorifies the Soviet Union's defeat of Hitler, and whitewashes everything else.
The Tsarnaev family's connection with Russia is complex because of the intricate patchwork of ethnicities that comprises Russia and the former Soviet Union.
"Russia lost the Cold War and in my opinion this document is just fixing the victory of the West over Russia or over the Soviet Union, " said presidential council member Andranik Migranyan.
The brief war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia served as a reminder to the rest of the Soviet Union that Russia remained the regional hegemon, and gave notice that the US would not extend meaningful support to pro-US governments that found themselves in confrontation with Russia.
The last successful interplanetary mission for the program was in 1988 when Russia was still the Soviet Union.
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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.
Are changes in the ABM Treaty "substantive, " requiring Senate approval, if Russia succeeds to the role of the Soviet Union or--as the administration proposed and the Russian government has twice approved- -if Russia, together with Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan become the Soviet Union's successor states?
Out of 19 attempted missions, Russia and the former Soviet Union have had only a few partial successes.
Russia, or the Soviet Union, is credited with having preserved at least nominal Mongolian independence, when the country might have been absorbed by China.
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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.
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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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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Although none of these schemes is likely to come to anything, they all help to distract attention from the central point: Russia agreed to take on the Soviet Union's liabilities in return for acquiring its assets.
Along with the growing despotic gloom in Russia, much of the former Soviet Union features a lineup of rulers who have by now stayed on quite long enough to qualify not as transition leaders but entrenched despots.
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.
In the past, Ivanishvili was actually a major supporter of Mikhail Saakashvili, perhaps the most outspoken and ostentatiously anti-Russia politician in the entire Former Soviet Union.
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Charlotte Hobson is the author of Black Earth City, which describes life in Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But the dispute raises interesting wider questions such as why Russia is still entitled to the Soviet Union's assets when it regards its liabilities so cavalierly.
The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.
Two decades ago the breakup of the Soviet Union left Russia's defense industry on the verge of collapse.
She spoke for many hours about her life and fate in the small Caucasus republic that has shaped much of what has happened in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.
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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.
Lithuania's occupation by Russia and later by the Soviet Union did not make it part of Eastern Europe, as the occupation of Hungary and the Balkans by Turkey did not make them part of Asia Minor.
But the prime minister dismissed suggestions that this is an effort to somehow recreate the Soviet Union, saying Russia wants to play in the global market.
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.
With the end of the Soviet Union, he returned to Russia in 1991 as an extreme nationalist, lamenting the loss of the Soviet empire.
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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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.
Most such cases have involved material filched from ill-guarded sites in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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