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News from Rutgers
May 14, 2012
By Jeanne Devoux Mikhail Naumov traces his entrepreneurial ambitions to his early childhood in the Ural Mountains in Russia during the 1990s when
capitalism was taking hold in the former
Soviet Union in a big way. As a boy, he recalls, he liked nothing ...
Salon
May 14, 2012
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, America emerged as the lone superpower. Yet some two decades later, its position of both absolute and relative power appears to have deteriorated.
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
It will require someone with the military standing of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Zhukov, Five Star American General Dwight Eisenhower, the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Japanese shogun Tokugawa or the Chinese Marshal Zhu De to ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
May 14, 2012
His most famous works, the novels "The Heart of a Dog" (1925) and "The Master and Margarita" (1940), were not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 and 1967, respectively. A central topic in Bulgakov's work is the mismatch between Lenin's ideal of ...
BBC News
May 14, 2012
It has signed an agreement with Orange Dental to distribute its main product in parts of Northern
Africa and the Middle East, and some countries within the former
Soviet Union. The Dundee-based firm has also signed a deal covering the Turkish
market.
Vancouver Sun
May 14, 2012
Russia's efforts to regain the position as a world-class industrial nation that it lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago suffered a serious setback last week when its much-vaunted Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner crashed into an ...
The Voice of Russia
May 14, 2012
Today we are opening a series of programmes devoted to writers who grew up in the former
Soviet Union but made a name for themselves in the United States and
Canada.
BBC News
May 14, 2012
By Steve Rosenberg BBC News,
Moscow When nestled behind the Iron Curtain, the
Soviet Union could not take part in the
Eurovision Song Contest, so it set up a rival competition - and called it Intervision.
Detroit Free Press
May 14, 2012
Back in 1990, after the Red Wings drafted Sergei Fedorov, the young Russian had to defect from his Soviet Union team while it was in the US for an exhibition tour.
Tengrinews
May 14, 2012
Guido Herz began delving deeper into the
history of ethnic
Germans in the former
Soviet Union when he became Germany's consul general in the
Russian city of
Kaliningrad seven years ago.
Business Insider
May 14, 2012
Back in the days of the
Soviet Union, there was a whole field within
political science known as "
Kremlinology", where people outside the ruling circle within the Kremlin would attempt to divine what was really going on in that nation from what little ...
Washington Post
May 14, 2012
ISN
May 14, 2012
It has been two decades since the end of the
Cold War, the disintegration of the
Soviet Union and the dissolution of the
Warsaw Pact.
Detroit Free Press
May 13, 2012
Back in 1990, after the Wings drafted Sergei Fedorov, the young Russian had to defect from his Soviet Union team while it was in the United States for an exhibition tour.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
May 13, 2012
His most famous works, the novels "The Heart of a Dog" (1925) and "The Master and Margarita" (1940), were not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 and 1967, respectively. A central topic in Bulgakov's work is the mismatch between Lenin's ideal of ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
May 13, 2012
A few weeks before, the lanky young man from
Texas stunned the world by traveling to
Moscow and winning the
Soviet Union's most prestigious piano competition. He had done so by playing Russia's most beloved music. The
Cold War thawed a little then.
In-Forum
May 13, 2012
FARGO - Like Herb Brooks beating the
Soviet Union in
hockey,
North Dakota State track and field coach Don Larson had to take a walk and disappear from public view for awhile.
The Union Leader
May 13, 2012
But Lugar also reached out to Democrats on matters he considered vital to US security - making sure the
nuclear warheads of the old
Soviet Union did not fall into the hands of terrorists and rogue states - and on matters of principle: He was the ...
Albany Times Union
May 13, 2012
The Superjet is Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago. Wednesday's ill-fated flight was a demonstration for Indonesian fast-expanding domestic airlines that the manufacturer hoped would buy the jet ...
The Atlantic
May 12, 2012
And the Soviet Union managed a world-class space programme, yet was an economic and political basket case. My point is a little different.
Atlantic Sentinel
May 12, 2012
The goal was for the United States to be closer to both
China and the
Soviet Union than either was to each other and to be able to swing back and forth between the two powers as needed depending on what the exigencies of the balance of power dictated.
Casey Weekly Berwick
May 12, 2012
WHEN Sacha Baron Cohen arrived at the
London premiere of his latest movie, The Dictator, on Thursday, his driver wasn't just any old chauffeur, he was a former KGB officer and sniper in Afghanistan for the old
Soviet Union army.
Huffington Post
May 12, 2012
The latter could be blamed on the backward old
Soviet Union. But
Fukushima happened in future-oriented
Japan. May has seen the shutdown of all 54
nuclear reactors in Japan, following the fall of .
The Seattle Times
May 12, 2012
Russia's attempt to reassert itself on the
global aviation scene after a two-decade absence in the wake of the collapse of the
Soviet Union, hit turbulence in the tragic crash of one of its Sukhoi SuperJets in Indonesia, even if it was pilot error.
Budapest Times
May 12, 2012
Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism and the
evolution of Soviet
culture, 1931-1941 by Katerina Clark In view of the
Cold War and its lingering legacy, it is difficult these days to appreciate that the
Soviet Union wasn't always regarded in the West in an ...
Reuters UK
May 12, 2012
Washington Post
May 12, 2012
Mr. Kushlis joined the Foreign Service in 1970 and spent about 15 years overseas, with assignments in Switzerland, the
Soviet Union, Finland, Greece,
Thailand and
The Philippines. He was a political officer with an expertise in Soviet and Greek issues.
Pakistan Daily Times
May 11, 2012
I wonder if there are survivors of the times when Tamara Khanam from the
Soviet Union visited and performed in
Lahore, or when the film Bhawani Junction was made at the Lahore Railway Station.
Independent Online
May 11, 2012
Washington Post
May 11, 2012
The regime of newly inaugurated (again)
Russian president Vladimir Putin has spent the past decade trying to disguise the fact that the
Soviet Union was Nazi Germany's collaborator and supplier of resources during two crucial years at the start of ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
May 11, 2012
On May 22, the former Soviet republic of
Azerbaijan will play host to the
Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition between
singers from countries in Europe and parts of the former
Soviet Union. Though little known in the United States, ...
The Voice of Russia
May 11, 2012
And the major leaders of the great European powers which were trying to prevent Germany from rising again actually contributed much to this rising, starting with the Treaty of Versailles which humiliated Germany and the Soviet Union made them outcasts ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
May 11, 2012
"Henry VI" performed in a bloody butcher's shop, "As You Like It" turned into a bottom-of-the-bill B-movie western, "Macbeth" transplanted from ancient Scotland to the Soviet Union in the days of the Great Terror...you name it, somebody's tried it ...
Los Angeles Times
May 11, 2012
Not long ago we condemned the Soviet Union'sKGB for reaching beyond its borders to assassinate those whom it suspected of being its enemies.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 11, 2012
The unsure referee consulted with the linesman, a citizen of the
Soviet Union. He said, Goal!
England went on to win the Cup.
Reuters
May 11, 2012
From the end of the
Soviet Union - which spawned
currencies such as the Estonian Kroon and the Kazakh Tenge - to the introduction of the
Euro, they have had plenty of practice in preparing their systems to cope with change.
MarineLink
May 11, 2012
HMS St Albans has spent five days in
Iceland to pay her respects to those mariners who took part in the convoys to the
Soviet Union when sailors braved air and U-
boat attack to deliver crucial aid 70 years ago. In rugged surroundings, the Commanding ...
Reuters UK
May 11, 2012
Shelby Star
May 11, 2012
She lived in the
Soviet Union during the
Cold War era. In that time and place, the secret
police were on a mission to stamp out
Christianity by any means necessary.
RT
May 11, 2012
A unique combination of firepower, sturdiness and mobility, the iconic T-34 has become legendary as the tank that won the Great Patriotic War for the Soviet Union. Join RT on a tour of the museum dedicated to the powerful weapon.
Reuters
May 11, 2012
analysts can't yet say how far the loss of the first new passenger jet since the fall of the
Soviet Union will damage the rebirth of Russian aviation, but agree it deals a psychological blow at a time when domestic air safety is also under scrutiny.
Reuters
May 10, 2012
analysts can't yet say how far the loss of the first new passenger jet since the fall of the
Soviet Union will damage the rebirth of Russian aviation, but agree it deals a psychological blow at a time when domestic air safety is also under scrutiny.
The Moscow Times
May 10, 2012
The paper that for decades was the mouthpiece of the ruling Soviet Communist Party, churning out propaganda that made a mockery of its title, meaning "Truth," suffered a humiliating fall from grace as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
BBC News
May 10, 2012
Formed in 1949 to counter the threat of post-war communist expansion as the
Soviet Union sought to extend its influence in Europe,
NATO -
the north Atlantic Treaty Organisation - is the world's most powerful regional defence alliance.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 9, 2012
Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond US exuberance over the end of the
Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed
Soviet Union.
Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock speaks to supporters in ...
New York Times
May 8, 2012
This contrast helps explain a striking political anomaly:
immigrants from the former
Soviet Union are far more apt to vote for Republicans than are most New Yorkers, who often drink in
Democratic party allegiance with their
mothers'
milk and are four ...
Christian Science Monitor
May 8, 2012
Fred Weir has been a Monitor correspondent, based in
Moscow and covering the former
Soviet Union, since 1998. "Due to the fact that a number of European heads of states are unable to attend the summit of presidents of the Central European Countries in ...
EurasiaNet
May 8, 2012
Since the
Soviet Union's implosion in 1991, foreign states and international non-governmental
organizations have tended to view the South Caucasus states of
Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia as nations in transition.
Deutsche Welle
May 8, 2012
Traditionally, the states of the former
Soviet Union commemorate the end of
World War II and the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
