Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often, politics dictate immigration policy," Hernandez said. "In the '80s, we allowed anyone defecting from the Soviet Union in under political asylum while turning away refugees from Nicaragua and El Salvador for being economic refugees...
...businessman, who had brokered occasional arms deals from the old Soviet Union to Third World countries for two decades, wasn't surprised. The Soviets had long ago set up routes to disguise Moscow's involvement in clandestine ventures by shipping arms through East bloc countries. Now, because newly independent but still cash-hungry Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia all support networks of privatized export firms to stimulate arms sales from their own faltering factories, it is easier than ever to use such channels. Even so, my companion was impressed at the influence wielded by powerful members of the military-industrial...
...country where air crashes last year killed nearly five times as many people as in 1987. This year the numbers are even worse: already, 195 people have died in what is becoming the deadliest season in the history of Russian civil aviation. Indeed, so dangerous have the post-Soviet skies become that this week the International Airline Passengers' Association will begin advising its members "not to fly to, in or over Russia. It's simply too dangerous...
After the Soviet Union toppled in December 1991, the air giant splintered into more than 150 smaller, independent carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a plague of press reports has warned of a black market in weapons-grade nuclear material in Russia. The Central Intelligence Agency claims that most of these stories are untrue. CIA Director R. James Woolsey went so far as to tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agency was "not aware of any illegal transfers in quantities sufficient to produce a nuclear weapon...