The new democratic government of Russia had a slow and discordant start. The terrible days of a centrally planned economy was over, but its people were still confounded. Restrictions were removed, on...
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The former USSR has had a rough road through the past four-teen years. The collapse of the Soviet Union was devastating to all of the countries that were part of it. Economies crashed, government...
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LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Former Soviet states had the
largest number of new HIV infections last year in the European
region, mainly due to shared drug needles, an EU report said on
Friday. Forme...
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North Korean officials and U.S. congressional staffers have
discussed the possibility of using a former Soviet Union program to
destroy nuclear weapons in the denuclearization of the North,
...
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Boris Yeltsin was a courageous fighter, an instinctive democrat who helped dismantle the vast totalitarian apparatus of the Soviet state and its monolithic Communist Party, freeing millions in Asia...
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Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said Saturday that he
thinks the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States in the
closing days of World War II ''could not be help...
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Japan turned down a request from South Korea in 1976 to make a
partial payment to help South Koreans who were taken to Sakhalin by
Japan during the World War II return home, according to dipl...
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Moscow (dpa) - The battle between the United States and the former
Soviet Union to dominate space reached incredible heights during the
Cold War, with each side investing bi...
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BERLIN, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Israel is not trying to encourage
Jews who left the Soviet Union for Germany to migrate to Israel,
its ambassador to Berlin said on Wednesday. German media had reported ...
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Soviet Union in Transition
Former Soviet Union sees most new HIV infections-report
