Today, Russians listen to old Soviet songs and watch Soviet era movies.

During Soviet era, Soyuzmultfilm studio was the largest animation producer.

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin s statements seem to recall the Soviet era with nostalgia.

As in the Soviet era, the dictatorial mask disguises the system s economic and political fragility.

Azerbaijan's school rules require secondary school students to wear uniforms, reminiscent of Soviet era uniforms.

Post Soviet Russia A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era , Columbia University Press, 2002, 394 pages.

Ukraine's successful emergence could help to highlight some important trends in the post Soviet era.

Soviet era deference to paternalistic leaders gave way to self confidence and distrust of established authority.

We have hated this but, this coordinating conjunction, ever since the dawn of the Soviet era.

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922 1991), Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on the particular era.

Significant Russian immigration also connected with Virgin Lands Campaign and Soviet space program during the Khrushchev era.

Many of the new names have Crimean Tatar origin or other historic roots, replacing the Soviet era variants.

The dissolution of the Soviet bloc has favoured the opening of a new era after decades of bipolarization.

The balance of terror of the Soviet era has given way to unilateral energy dependency in favor of Russia.

After regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, only remnants of the industrial behemoths of the communist era remained.

Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia s external influence in this region remains enormous.

Millions plunged into poverty, from 1.5 level of poverty in the late Soviet era, to 39 49 by mid 1993.

They submit that such requirements discriminate against those religions which had no opportunity to be active during the Soviet era.

He also observed that his country contained much old, Soviet era refrigeration equipment which continued to need servicing with CFCs.

Tereshkova s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood.

The secession of Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan during the Soviet era was legal, peaceful and just and carried out through referendum.

It is named after the hero of bad Soviet era spy novels, a figure who was also the butt of many underground jokes.

Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has launched a comprehensive program to restructure its defense industry, which has shrunk dramatically since the Soviet era.

Net Material Product (NMP) was the main macroeconomic indicator used for monitoring growth in national accounts of socialist countries during the Soviet era.

The treaty was an instrumental tool for the Soviet Union to gain political leverage in the internal affairs of Finland in post war era.

Putin still doesn t understand that a centralized political system is as incapable of comprehending and correcting mistakes now as it was in the Soviet era.

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As in the Soviet era, state and governmental officials will be reduced to party ciphers the role that President Medvedev will play under General Secretary Putin.

While Russia is no longer the superpower it was in the Soviet era, militarily it is still a great power, at least in Europe and Asia.

Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous and heroic dissidents of the Soviet era, now seems certain to become a towering figure in the iconography of Putinism.

And it is indeed farcical for China s government to try to suppress the yearning for freedom in the same brutal ways that Soviet era communists once did.

The US Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.

Because the world associates these traits with the Soviet era, many people mistake their reappearance as a sign that Russian power is now approaching that of the USSR.

Scrapping the socialist central planning and state ownership of property of the Soviet era, Russia attempted to build an economy based on market capitalism, often with painful results.

The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human made satellite, and the first man in space.

Estonia demonstrated at independence and again during the recent crisis over the movement of a Soviet era memorial that with determination and strong support, Russian pressure can be resisted.

After all, the Kremlin is occupied not by the cautious bureaucrats of the Soviet era, but by buccaneers who were willing to take risks to get where they are.

In choosing to allow One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to be published, Khrushchev knew that he was undermining the entire Soviet era up to that point.

She danced during the Soviet era at the same time as the great Galina Ulanova, and in 1960 took over Ulanova's title as prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi.

By blending the Soviet past with the Tsarist past and a few shards of Yeltsin era democracy, Putin seems to think that he can neutralize the extremes of Russian history.

The diplomats surrounding Putin may find it natural, given their training, to apply the old Soviet era methods, and may believe that the moment has come to undo yesterday s humiliation.

Material damage caused by the world war and the following Soviet era significantly slowed Estonia's economic growth, resulting in a wide wealth gap in comparison with neighbouring Finland and Sweden.

The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the era of stagnation in the 1980s.

Not only did Russian intelligence fail to catch the coming Georgian attack on South Ossetia, but Russia s electronic warfare system and ill equipped ground troops looked like outdated Soviet era relics.

Education, held in particular esteem in Armenian culture, changed fastest of the social services, while health and welfare services attempted to maintain the basic state planned structure of the Soviet era.