As we all recognize, the USSR has a first-rate military and a third-world economy.
And yet the USSR was, inarguably, one of the defining entities of the 20th century.
To do otherwise emboldens those thwarting the freedom movements in both China and the USSR.
" Soon thereafter, the United States acknowledged that the USSR had dissolved and "is no more.
Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
Medvedev, 46, is the third president of Russia since the fall of the USSR in 1991.
FORBES: Likely Role Reversal For Russia's Dynamic Duo As Medvedev Backs Putin For Pres
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post as leader of the USSR on Christmas Day, 1991.
The country has been undergoing changes since the dismantling of the old USSR in 1991.
However, in Ukraine, the 14 years since the USSR's demise hasn't healed every wound.
FORBES: Ukraine Seizes 'Total Control' Of Private Steel Mill
Separatist conflicts, mutinies, and warlords have bedeviled Georgia since the breakup of the USSR.
The oligarchs from the old USSR account for 15% of prime London real estate by value.
Mr Lieberman was born in 1958 in Kishinev in the USSR, now Chisinau in Moldova.
The USSR seeks, through whatever means are available, to fracture hostile alliances, especially NATO.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Can The United States Afford Not To Be Properly Defended?
At that time, the USSR had not yet cut off its relations with Israel.
Accordingly, assembly in the USSR of Western computerized telephone exchanges is currently proscribed by COCOM.
This 2011 article describes in detail how Reagan used monetary policy to bankrupt the USSR.
After the end of the Cold War, the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign states.
The USSR originally thought the 22 metre-long missiles could be mistaken for palm trees.
The USSR president is the head of the Union state exercising supreme executive power...
Western joint ventures with the USSR have the potential vastly to increase these costs.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Joint Ventures: The Camel's Nose Under The Tent
Strauss before he does any more harm to long-term American interests in the erstwhile USSR.
Structural economic reforms are not yet underway in the USSR, as most Soviet economists admit.
That the Administration should, moreover, contemplate compensating the USSR for such counterproductive "cooperation" boggles the mind.
The region became a federal republic of Russia in 1991 following the collapse of the USSR.
Such a system would revolutionize the USSR's military command, control and communications (C3) system.
As strange as this may sound, the USSR seemed to be a rational state.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney debates on Hugh Hewitt show
Mr Putin said the USSR had never had to cope with a heatwave like that of 2010.
Lithuania and Estonia, the U.S. must send clear signals to the USSR and to our European allies.
Economies of affected countries were decimated by the disaster and by the subsequent breakup of the USSR.
The USSR Supreme Soviet has two chambers: The Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.
应用推荐