Sentence examples for soviet land from inspiring English sources

In nearby Azerbaijan, another former Soviet land, there is growing concern about shipments of Russian weapons to neighboring Armenia.

Many of the refugees were casualties of Soviet land mines or of the intensive bombing of towns and cities.

He spent his youth trying to subvert the Soviet occupation of his country from 1979 to 1989, and he lost a foot to a Soviet land mine.

Even worse is another cantata, In the Soviet Land by Jan Kapr (1914-1988) whish is vainglorious pomp from the start.

"We knew her back there," said one voice from a matronly trio -- Isabella, Fayina and Zinaida -- referring to the Soviet land of their younger days.

At the Guardians Institute for Orthopedics in Kandahar, officials say, 70percentt of the patients were injured by Soviet land mines.

The experimental justification was elementary to say the least, but Teller described it as "a laser module the size of an executive desk" producing thousands of focused laser beams which "could potentially shoot down the entire Soviet land-based missile force".

This model of monarchy seems increasingly to be taking hold in the former Soviet lands, republics that have often become the personal fiefs of rulers who mostly were part of the Soviet system.

Across the former Soviet lands of Central Asia, repression of news media is increasing and indiscriminate, say Western diplomats, local journalists and representatives of foreign and domestic private groups monitoring the region's progress -- or lack of it -- in building democracy.

These places are the end of the road for smuggling pieces that are plundered by the warring factions in Afghanistan, pass into Pakistan or the former Soviet lands to the north, and make their way onto the international art market.

Mrs. Salijanova and her family are among the beneficiaries of a United Nations program that, for the first time, is bringing microcredit -- already widespread in parts of Asia and in Africa -- to the former Soviet lands of Central Asia.