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Russians Get Creative Ahead of Elections
February 10, 2012 | Newsy.com

Key players reflect on fall of USSR twenty years on
December 03, 2011 | Agence France-Presse

Winter 1991: the final collapse of the USSR
December 01, 2011 | Agence France-Presse

Soviet Union Wikipedia Information

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), also called the Soviet UnionUnion. Britannica (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з; tr.: Sovetskiy Soyuz), was a constitutionally socialist state...

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Eight Federal Agencies Have FOIA Requests a Decade Old
July 04, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 4, 2011 - Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of...

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Our View: Recalling Vaclav Havel, liberator
December 27, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
Other Eastern European'' satellite'' states of the Soviet Union -- Poland,... ...

From around the web

Citizens can be the best diplomats
February 13, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
It is also an opportunity to demonstrate once again the power of people-to-people diplomacy that was on display a half century ago when Iowans befriended the people of the former Soviet Union ...

Taliban Statement Marks 32nd Anniversary Of Soviet Invasion, Says The U. S. And NATO...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban' s shadow government) has issued a statement marking the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet Union of Afghanistan. Following is...

David Ignatius: Nixon's great China flip- flop
February 13, 2012 | indystar.com
Nixon was struggling abroad as he contemplated the China move: He was bogged down in a deeply unpopular Vietnam War and looking for new ways to contain the Soviet Union. Working...

[ Video ] Artist's Time- Lapse Map of the World's 2053 Nuclear Explosions
February 10, 2012 | Read/WriteWeb
The climax comes between 1955 and 1970 as the Soviet Union joined the U.S. as a nuclear power and... The Soviet Union performed most of its tests in and around what is now...

George Will: GOP's murky rhetoric on national defense
February 09, 2012 | indystar.com
Do Republicans think it is premature to withdraw up to 7,000 troops from Europe two decades after the Soviet Union's death? About 73,000 will remain, most of them in prosperous...

SoftPanorama, a vast resource with a Russian edge
February 05, 2012 | MetaFilter
My Address is the Soviet Union VIA'' Flame'' Song of Friendship/The Hills of Manchuria Then there is the basso profundo collection. Wow. I never heard any human voice that...

Soviet Union on twitter

	Mighty Dekes vs. Soviet union tonight.. tryna beat these #commybastards Twitter: @gkranzyy
	it will be the soviet union in this bitch lol .. Twitter: @eanahsjaT
	@LoliBanger idk what that means but I do know the soviet union defeated the forces of darkness in the great patriotic war Twitter: @frumpy_fuu
	@_RollEm man yes im hating on your hat from the soviet Union lol Twitter: @MrPapichulo88
	Go back to the Soviet Union! Twitter: @QueenAmidala
	The #Soviet Union adopted the #Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar) on Feb 14, 1918. #history #gk Twitter: @RTE2009