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Following South African raid on African National Congress base just outside of Maputo January 1981, Soviet warships arrived in Mozambican ports of Maputo and Beira with warning of reprisals for further attacks. By the mid-1980s, relations with Cuba were in decline and Soviet intentions..…

Indeed, for years, Russia had made number of important steps ostensibly in line with this stratagem — ranging from forgiving, in 2017, $20 debt owed by African countries to Soviet Union to intensifying cooperation with those states. ... In referring to Soviet model of cooperation,..…

For comparison, IMF's 2019 GDP growth forecasts for Ukraine's former Soviet neighbors Russia and Belarus were revised downward, to 1.1 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively .. ..…

CIA specializing in Soviet Union and Russia briefer of presidents, vice presidents and secretaries-of-state, Ray has drawn on nearly six decades of Washington-insider knowledge to help expose Russiagate delusion and malfeseance in the intelligence agencies.. ..…

 On December 26, 1991, no longer able to sustain, and fearing another revolution or US-backed by Europe, USSRvoluntarily dissolved, forming Soviet Union. ... He became hero to Russian people, and Soviet Union eventually crept back to heavy-handed policies reminiscent of USSR.. ..…

For example, the CIA believed, in the aftermath of World War II, that the Soviet Union was engaged in a wide-ranging program of testing LSD. ..…

The overwhelming focus of work in this area, work on the collapse of Soviet Union and other communist regimes some 30 years ago, has been on understanding sudden upsurges popular protest. ..…

Lebanon, the size of Connecticut, was under threat by the Soviet Union. ... Nasser took a decisive step when he arranged a large arms purchase from the Soviet Union’s client state Czechoslovakia in 1955. ..…

Soviet anti-air units, masked as Syrian ones, shot down four enemy planes during the phase of the in 1982. ... On July 20, 1982, Israeli Special Forces unit landed in the rear of Syrian troops, in the region of Damascus-Beirut road, attacking the headquarters of Soviet military Mikhail..…

Yet one of the chief reasons behind continued nostalgia for Soviet Union, is due to Western-designed neoliberal reforms., first introduced Russia during the early 1990s.. ... The death rate Russia shot up in the immediate years following Soviet demise, and the figures are unprecedented..…

Two weeks later the Times ran a follow-up piece announcing that the State Department had decided to sponsor foreign tours by American jazzmen, and on December 15 the White House earmarked $92,500 to send Dizzy Gillespie’s band to the Middle East for the first in a long series of government-sponsored jazz..…

In 1979, the Cold War reached Afghanistan with the Soviet Union’s invasion. ..…