Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades, Jiang worked in the boiler room of the new China, running soap and candy factories. He spent a year in Moscow learning the wonders of Soviet auto production. He made it to Beijing in 1976 as the administrator of the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry. It was an unimpressive-sounding title, but it was his first shot, at the age of 50, at the higher ranks of Chinese politics. He was part of the team charged with transforming Shenzhen, a sleepy village across the border from Hong Kong, into one of Deng's first boomtowns, and he eventually...
According to Turner, unilateral nuclear weapons reform by the United States would motivate France, Germany, China and the former Soviet republics to undertake similar reform...
...Internet was first created in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 40 years ago. Then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as a part of the Department of Defense...
...West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls every week for the presidential administration, takes a bleak view of the war. Says he: "This will be a conflict without winners...
DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...