The Soviet-era equipment is as outdated at its place of origin. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2004] Reference
That night, we ate in a restaurant just below a Soviet-era hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Taloqan] Reference
But he concedes that the entire Soviet-era licensing regime is obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Left On The Launch Pad] Reference
(The other components, including the missiles, are old Soviet-era stock.). From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Col. Ulbaidulo Ahmadov climbs out of his rickety Soviet-era military vehicle. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Silk Road' Of Death] Reference
The agreement lays to rest a long-running Soviet-era row over the Barents Sea. From Wordnik.com. [Russia and Norway resolve Arctic border dispute] Reference
With cash piling up, the government has begun to pay off Soviet-era foreign debt. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Money] Reference
Even crudely manufactured devices can be far more deadly than Soviet-era land mines. From Wordnik.com. [Unholy Allies] Reference
They had gathered to honor an old Soviet-era "mujahed" who had died of TB in the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda's New Threat] Reference
Vilnius wasn't as advertised — no meat shortages, no bread lines, no Soviet-era grimness. From Wordnik.com. [Macarena Lithuania] Reference
These communists, he explains, are not the ideological, Soviet-era apparatchiks of the 1930s. From Wordnik.com. [Moldova's Red Revival] Reference
Dreary Soviet-era blocks are gradually being replaced by modern buildings of steel and glass. From Wordnik.com. [Bulgaria Wants More Tourists] Reference
Gusinsky, who flew back from Israel to manage the crisis, accused Putin of using Soviet-era tactics. From Wordnik.com. [A Kremlin Crackdown] Reference
By closing girls 'schools, the Taliban say, they've stopped the rot of Soviet-era secular educations. From Wordnik.com. [When Women Are The Enemy] Reference
Those left behind hang wet towels inside their Soviet-era tower-block apartments and take cold showers. From Wordnik.com. [Deaths in Moscow Put Pressure on Officials] Reference
Two local artists decided to pay tribute to their leader with a revival of Soviet-era "socialist realism.". From Wordnik.com. [Painting A New Portrait Of President Putin] Reference
For the first time since World War II, and their descent into Soviet-era autocracy, they sense their power. From Wordnik.com. [Kiev's Victory Carnival] Reference
If that happens, chess aficionados are hoping Moscow will restore Soviet-era levels of support to the game. From Wordnik.com. [The Chess Goddess] Reference
Yurakov is doing everything he can to keep them there -- including resuscitating Soviet-era pride and paternalism. From Wordnik.com. [Comrade Putin's New Russia] Reference
He resumed enforcement of a Soviet-era residence-permit system and used it to expel some 10,000 people from Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [Is Yeltsin Becoming Boris The Terrible?] Reference
By now, Russia's Soviet-era Constitution had been amended, bypassed and ignored so often that legality hardly counted. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's Coup De Grace] Reference
Russia's dwindling number of Boris Yeltsin-era liberals find such attitudes scarily reminiscent of Soviet-era groupthink. From Wordnik.com. [Young Russians’ About-Face From the West] Reference
Bulgaria declared a national emergency and vowed to reopen a Soviet-era nuclear power station to ensure its energy independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Gas Wars] Reference
They're relics of the old Soviet-era command economy, dating back to Stalin's efforts to create an industrialized nation overnight. From Wordnik.com. [Fear Comes to the Russian Heartland] Reference
Throughout the early 1990s "mafias" that had grown out of the Soviet-era black market were quickly building up capital -- and power. From Wordnik.com. [The Capital Of Crime] Reference
The North Korea Air Force has approximately 1,700 aircraft, including about 800 fighters, and nearly all of those are Soviet-era MiGs. From Wordnik.com. [Pilot in Crash Suspected] Reference
A little over a year after Putin's election Russia is undergoing an extraordinary revival of Soviet-era habits, reflexes and rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Comrade Putin Knows Best] Reference
Over the past several years, Russia has used its stabilization fund based on oil taxes to prepay all Soviet-era sovereign debt to Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
TV journalist Aleksandr Gurnov even recently revived the Soviet-era show "International Panorama" on the state-owned channel where he works. From Wordnik.com. [Comrade Putin's New Russia] Reference
Case in point: as of Jan. 1, Putin's rubber-stamp legislature scrapped the country's Soviet-era subsidy system for pensioners and military personnel. From Wordnik.com. [NOTHING TO CELEBRATE] Reference
On the list: cramming the civil service with cronies, overriding the Constitution and botching moves to strip jobs from those linked with the Soviet-era regime. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrible Twins] Reference
The 49-year-old director of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, usually known by its Soviet-era name, the Kirov Opera and Ballet, is a man in perpetual motion. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Arts Preview: Gergiev Goes Global] Reference
The last Soviet-era missiles were removed from Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan more than 10 years ago, as part of a U. S.-backed disarmament program created by Sens. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope: Getting Bombed] Reference
Those who've heard a bit more will think of Kazakhstan as a remote land still run by a Soviet-era strongman, who is now building a new capital as a bizarre monument to himself. From Wordnik.com. [In The Land Of Borat] Reference
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