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On 1 February 1924, the USSR was recognized by the British Empire. The same year, a Soviet Constitution was approved, legitimizing the December 1922 union. In December 1936, Stalin unveiled a new Soviet Constitution. The constitution was seen as a personal ...
May 26, 2012 at 10:04 | Source: Radio Egypt
In Butovo, the extreme southern outskirts of Moscow, there was a large field for the breeding of horses. In the late thirties of last century, the Soviet secret police requisitioned the land and put a fence around it. They told the locals that they had ...
May 28, 2012 at 07:46 | Source: ilsussidiario.net
London, May 24 (IANS) Human rights violations -- including harassment to journalists for exposing abuses -- are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights group Amnesty International has said. In Russia, the picture was ...
May 24, 2012 at 17:38 | Source: Newstrack India
BRUSSELS, May 17 (UPI) -- The EU's six closest former Soviet Union neighbors had a mixed record in implementing democratic reforms in 2011, European Commissioners said this week. The six members of the EU's Eastern Partnership -- Armenia ...
May 17, 2012 at 11:34 | Source: United Press International
Being ticked off by a bossy babushka took me back to the time when I lived and studied in Minsk during the days of the Soviet Union. It also seemed to confirm the commonly held view that Belarus is a country joined at the hip politically and emotionally ...
May 22, 2012 at 14:41 | Source: Daily Telegraph
... to remain undefeated in the World Hockey Championship in the post-Soviet era - the last team to do so was the Soviet Union in 1989. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, political borders nullified the possibility of regular East-West hockey collaborations.
May 26, 2012 at 23:19 | Source: Global Voices Online.org
That is, apparently, people traipse the streets pining for days of yore, when the Soviet Union included Ukraine and there was stability and solace in knowing that the bosses in Moscow were running things. This nostalgia must seem odd to outsiders.
May 23, 2012 at 03:56 | Source: Globe and Mail
Lithuania declared independence in March 1990 after almost five decades of Kremlin rule, becoming the first republic to secede from the Soviet Union. The nation of three million went on to join the EU and NATO in 2004. Ceremonies honouring ...
May 14, 2012 at 18:47 | Source: France 24
AvtoVAZ was set up with the help of Fiat SpA (F) in the 1960s, as the Soviet Union sought to create its own “people’s car” for the Eastern Bloc. In its heyday, East German buyers had to wait as long as 17 years to get a Lada. After the ...
May 23, 2012 at 00:07 | Source: Bloomberg
Putin, who once called the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century", called for more robust cooperation among members of regional alliances. At meetings of the Commonwealth of Independent ...
May 15, 2012 at 20:33 | Source: msnbc.com