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Asia Overland

Asia Overland by Mark Elliott and Wil Klass was an idiosyncratic book of the 1990s which developed a minor cult following amongst backpackers in Asia and the former Soviet Union.

Catherine Bertini

As chief executive officer of the organization, Ms. Bertini is credited with assisting hundreds of millions of victims of wars and natural disasters throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Gregory Ciottone

Also beginning in the early 1990’s under USAID, Ciottone worked extensively in the former Soviet Union, which is where he met his wife.

Hillsong Church Kiev

But none of this would have been possible without the assistance of Pat Robertson's CBN and their television ministry into the former Soviet Union under Steve Webber.

Jason Eskenazi

For Eskenazi's first book, Wonderland: A Fairy Tale Of The Soviet Monolith, he undertook an extensive documentary project in Russia and the former Soviet Union between 1991 and 2001.

Neve Daniel

Neve Daniel has a mixed population of native Israelis and immigrants from the former Soviet Union, France, Canada, and the United States.

Oleg Marshev

In 1990, Marshev took the gold medal at the AMSA Piano Competition in Cincinnati and just before the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Marshev settled in Italy.

Yuri Bessmertny

Having established himself domestically, he then went on to win numerous European, intercontinental and world titles while fighting mostly in the former Soviet Union.

Having outgrown the domestic scene, he then started fighting around the former Soviet Union and became a world champion for the first time in 2006 when he won the S-1 title in Poland.


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1990s Post-Soviet aliyah

Jews from war-torn areas from the former Soviet Union were evacuated to Israel by the Jewish Agency.

All-Union Communist Party

All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks, another small party established in 1991 and operating in the former Soviet Union.

Anya Verkhovskaya

Verkhovskaya has served on the Advisory Committee for New Émigrés in New York City and is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Archive: Institute of Russian Jewish American Diaspora, New York City, Sir Martin Gilbert, Honorary Chair, a nonprofit organization founded to preserve the history and collective memory of the Jewish immigrant community from the former Soviet Union.

Armenians in Russia

Boris Babaian (b. 1933), the father of supercomputing in the former Soviet Union and Russia

Bars Media

Bars Media Documentary Film Studio was established in 1993 by Vardan Hovhannisyan, who began his career as a frontline filmmaker covering hotspots in the former Soviet Union.

Carlotta Gall

She started her newspaper career with The Moscow Times, in Moscow, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union.

Chingiz Sadykhov

He has spent much of his life accompanying Azerbaijan's most prominent singers, including Bulbul, the founder of Azerbaijan's professional vocal school; Rashid Behbudov, the singer who most often represented Azerbaijan throughout the world during the Soviet period; and Muslim Magomayev (born 1942), one of the former Soviet Union's best-known pop stars.

Dubensky

Dubensky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Frunzensky

Frunzensky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Guards Army

The Guards unit (the Russian Gvardiya and similar elite military units of Belarus, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union.)

Industrialny

Industrialny City District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Izaly Zemtsovsky

As a prolific teacher (for several decades he was a professor at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema), he affected the formation of Russian and other ethnic schools of musicologists in former Soviet Union (including Baltic, Caucasian, and Central Asian republics, from the 1990s – independent states) and countries of the Eastern Europe.

Jackson–Vanik amendment

Since 1975 more than 500,000 refugees, many of whom were Jews, evangelical Christians, and Catholics from the former Soviet Union, have been resettled in the United States.

Kalininsky

Kalininsky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Krasnoarmeysky

Krasnoarmeysky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Krasnogvardeysky

Krasnogvardeysky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Moscow District

Moskovsky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

MS Vereshchagino

In 1968, Leninskaya Kuznitsa shipyard in Kiev launched Zhelezny Potok, the lead ship of what became one of the most numerous ship classes in the former Soviet Union and independent Ukraine.

Nahum Galmor

In 2002 Galmor took over the Kazakh company Kazphosphate LLC, the largest phosphate producer of the former Soviet Union.

New Life Radio-Moscow

Sensing the need to make Christian programming available in every community throughout the former Soviet Union, the station's management entered into a partnership with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination (based in Chicago, Illinois) and HCJB World Radio (noted for developing the world's first Christian shortwave radio station in the early 1930s from Quito, Ecuador).

Ordzhonikidzevsky

Ordzhonikidzevsky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Partizansky

Partizansky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Petrovsky

Petrovsky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Pio La Torre

The missiles were stationed in June 1983, but were dismantled after the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by the former Soviet Union and the United States on December 8, 1987.

Sverdlovsky

Sverdlovsky District, several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

The Shrubs

Hobbs went on to form Mecca, who toured the former Soviet Union with Nitzer Ebb and others, and subsequently Infidel, along with current Pere Ubu guitarist Keith Moliné and Nico's former drummer Graham Dowdall (a.k.a. Dids), at the same time carrying on in artist management.

Tristram's jird

Records from the Greek island of Kos represent the only gerbils reported from Europe, outside the former Soviet Union.

Vanora Bennett

She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.

Veterans Today

Veterans Today lists as its editorial board of directors former members of the U.S. military Gordon Duff (senior editor and chairman of the board), Major Bobby Hanifin, James H. Fetzer and Clinton Bastin; former members of intelligence agencies Lt. General Hamid Gul (Pakistan), Col. Eugene Khrushchev ((former)Soviet Union), and Jim W. Dean (managing editor), Gwenyth Todd and Leo Wanta (United States); as well as Jeff Rense, Carol Duff, Khalil Nouri and Michael Harris.

VMR-1

In February 1990, VMR-1 became the first Marine aviation unit to fly to the former Soviet Union when the squadron transported the United States Marine Corps Band to Moscow.

Voroshilovsky

Voroshilovsky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Zavodsky

Zavodsky City District, name of several city districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Zheleznodorozhny

Zheleznodorozhny City District, several divisions in the cities of the former Soviet Union

Znamensky

Znamensky District, name of several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union