Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapons programs, the emeralds technically belonged to MINATOM, the Russian ministry in charge of the former U.S.S.R.'s vast nuclear program. But as each man in the bathhouse well knew, there was nothing unusual about a squabble over the right to sell state assets. Since the demise of the Soviet empire, no one knows for sure who has the right to sell such assets. Meanwhile, billions of dollars' worth of weapons and raw materials has been exported, much of it illegally and for private gain...
...will call Moscow," the factory manager said, glancing at the yellow telephone on his desk. The special vertushka phone network still connects industrial managers across the 11 time zones of the former Soviet Union with the new nomenklatura -- the unofficial network of bureaucrats, former party elites and military officers -- neatly bypassing political leaders in Moscow who might attempt to stand in the way of deals such as this...
...openness of its democratic system. His strategic and tactical brilliance made possible the U.S.'s rapprochement with China, but his secretive style and disdain for the moralism that undergirds America's sense of mission led to a backlash from both the left and the right against detente with the Soviet Union. Diplomacy reaffirms both my respect for his brilliance as an analyst and my reservations about the low priority he places on the values that have made American democracy such a powerful international force...
...OFTEN, THE DEEDS OF DIPLOmacy are cloaked in riddles -- especially when their results are likely to embarrass or anger. Jetting back from his recent trip to the countries of the former Soviet Union, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry trumpeted the Clinton Administration's continuing success in weaning Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine from nuclear weapons. But when the conversation turned to North Korea, the Secretary spoke with less clarity. "Our policy right along," he said, "has been oriented to try to keep North Korea from getting a significant nuclear-weapon capability...
...Soviet Union claimed that he died in 1947 in a prison camp, but rumors that he lived on in the gulags have been reported as late as five years...