Word: sovietizers
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...that every corner of the planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat), Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake's 600 km of shoreline. Today, many of these facilities - now privately run - are luring holidaymakers from further afield with cheap accommodation and treatment packages. West Europeans have...
...their claims to nuclear weapons in return for civilian nuclear technology. Those countries agreed to a pact and have reaped the benefits of their decisions for the last several decades. Given that the last thirty-six years have witnessed the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and a marked growth spurt in eastern economies, it is entirely reasonable for the U.S. and other powers to now reconsider nuclear policies laid out in the late...
...great view of the 'hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket-like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies?definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...Italian commission last week confirmed old theories that the Soviet Union was behind the assassination attempt on POPE JOHN PAUL...
...Ending the cold war was given as a gift to the United States." MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, former President of the Soviet Union, telling reporters on his 75th birthday that despite the great opportunity that the end of the cold war presented to the U.S. to build a safer and more stable world, it only strengthened America's arrogance and unilateralism...