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In Ukraine, much panic and politicking over H1N1 virus...and people being turned away. As the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of winter, the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union appear particularly vulnerable to the deadly virus. Burdened with weak health-care... In this article: Influenza, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, H1N1, Oxygen, Viktor Yushchenko, Europe, World Health Organization, and Eastern Europe |
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 03, 2009
Turkmenistan: Stranger in a very strange land
He was Saparmurat Niyazov, the local Communist party boss who had taken over as president when the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and created a personality cult unrivalled anywhere else in the world,...
In this article: Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Ruhnama, Saparmurat Niyazov, Birmingham, HIV, and Unemployment
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Coat of arms of Turkmenistan
Round variant of the emblem, used from 1992 until 2003. The coat of arms of Turkmenistan was created after Turkmenistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The eight-point green starburst (known as the star of Rub El...
In this article: Turkmenistan, Starburst, Bread, Islam, and Akhal-Teke
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...of enormous amounts of energy and more neutrons capable of splitting other atoms. Former Soviet Union (FSU) - Independent states that used to make up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), including Russia, Estonia, Latvia,...
In this article: Uranium, Department of Defense, Plutonium, International Atomic Energy Agency, Neutron, Biological Weapons Convention, United States, Russia, Department of Energy, and Atom
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Caspian Sea
...don't have a common border any more, so this is practically impossible). Even though it is the old Soviet Union that has lost territories such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, Iran has called for an equal division of the...
In this article: Caspian Sea, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Volga River, Baku, Turkmenistan, and Caspian Seal
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Times Online | December 22, 2008
'I was down in Nigeria . . . Lot of guns . . . lot of guns to the head'
...working. " The oil field was off Cheleken, on the Caspian. "It was like the part of Turkmenistan that the former Soviet Union had forgot, and probably God had forgot as well. No restaurants. No trees ..." More recently he was developing...
In this article: Nigeria, Pineapple, Ukraine, Chemistry, God, Surgut, Kiev, and Pakistan
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Wikipedia | September 25, 2009
Pakistan-Turkmenistan relations
...relations are the relations between Turkmenistan and Pakistan. Relations between the two countries were established after Turkmenistan became independent from the Soviet Union. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognise the...
In this article: Pakistan and Turkmenistan
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boston.com - Latest world news | July 22, 2009
Romania, Turkmenistan agree to cooperate on energy
...supplies delivered through Ukraine over a price dispute. Turkmenistan, the former Soviet Union's second-biggest gas producer, is trying to loosen Russia's grip on export routes. Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said Europe is...
In this article: Romania, Turkmenistan, Russia, European Union, Traian Basescu, Caspian Sea, Europe, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Natural gas, and Saparmurat Niyazov
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Wikipedia | August 18, 2009
Iran-Turkmenistan relations
Iran-Turkmenistan relations Iran and Turkmenistan have had relations since Turkmenistan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Iran was the first nation to recognize Turkmenistan as an independent nation. Since then, the two countries...
In this article: Turkmenistan, Iran, Joint venture, Natural gas, Caspian Sea, Tehran, and Russia
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Soviet Union
...of Muslims were Sunni. The Azerbaijanis, who were Shiite, were one major exception. The largest groups of Muslims in the Soviet Union resided in the Central Asian republics (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and...
In this article: Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Lenin, World War II, Bolshevik, and Nikita Khrushchev
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: Ru-CCCP.ogg, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from Советский Союз, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USSR.
Emerging from the Russian Empire following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921, the USSR was a union of several Soviet republics, but the synecdoche Russia — after the Russian SFSR, its largest and most populous constituent state — continued to be commonly used throughout the country's existence. The geographic boundaries of the USSR varied with time, but after the last major territorial annexations of the Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and certain other territories during World War II, from 1945 until dissolution, the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland and most of Finland. As the largest and oldest constitutionally communist state in existence, the Soviet Union became the primary model for future communist nations during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- Name:
- Soviet Union
- Conventional Long Name:
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Local Name:
- Союз Советских Социалистических Республик
- Capital:
- Moscow
- Motto:
- English translation: Workers of the world, unite!
- Continent:
- Eurasia
- Government type:
- Federal socialist republic, Single-party communist state
- Currency:
- Ruble (SUR)
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