And yet the USSR was, inarguably, one of the defining entities of the 20th century.
" 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.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post as leader of the USSR on Christmas Day, 1991.
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.
At that time, the USSR had not yet cut off its relations with Israel.
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.
Strauss before he does any more harm to long-term American interests in the erstwhile USSR.
The region became a federal republic of Russia in 1991 following the collapse of the USSR.
Mr Putin said the USSR had never had to cope with a heatwave like that of 2010.
Economies of affected countries were decimated by the disaster and by the subsequent breakup of the USSR.
But more than 20 years after the fall of the USSR, Mr Gorbachev refuses to take the blame.
Gorbachev proceeded to try to make adjustments, both at home and abroad, to keep the USSR a going concern.
" Soon thereafter, the United States acknowledged that the USSR "is no more.
Hence, the ABM Treaty lapsed by operation of law - that is, automatically - when the USSR dissolved in 1991.
If the renewal is a success, it will leave Russia less reliant on the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the USSR.
In a still-unfolding investigation, Machines Francaises Lourdes (MLF) of France (formerly Forest-Line) evidently transferred highly sophisticated machine tools to the USSR.
Copies of Robinson's testimony on "U.S. Trade Relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe" may be obtained by contacting the Center.
On the one hand, Poland was dominated by the USSR during the last century, and by the Russian Empire before World War I.
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Such a proposition was dubious twenty years ago when the only threat of ballistic missile attack was from the USSR and involved nuclear weapons.
Consequently, in 1987, American demands for intrusive inspection arrangements that had previously deadlocked the chemical arms control talks suddenly seemed acceptable to the USSR.
Germany has granted the USSR the right to continue to station as many as 380, 000 Soviet troops on former East German territory through 1994.
Noting that the USSR may view these as propitious developments is not to suggest that Moscow is in every case responsible for bringing them about.
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Of particular importance was his path-breaking analysis of documents from the former USSR, including memoirs published by officials associated with the Kremlin's anti-ballistic missile programs.
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Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty of 1972 between the United States and the USSR lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
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