Sentence examples for soviet merchant from inspiring English sources

The Soviet government formally accused the Italians of sinking two Soviet merchant vessels, the Tuniyaev and the Blageav, an accusation the Italians described as "aggressive and offensive".

Tells about Soviet merchant ships.

But they missed the Soviet merchant marine.

Vadim's mother was a schoolteacher and his father an electrical engineer on a ship in the Soviet merchant marine.

Soon the Soviet merchant fleet was carrying at least ten times as much American cargo as the U.S. Merchant Marine.

His grandfather had been a captain in the N.K.V.D., and his father was a captain in the Soviet merchant marine.

A 2002 United Nations report said that top Rwandan military officers worked closely with some of the most notorious smugglers and arms traffickers in the world, including Viktor Bout, a former Soviet arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death who was arrested this year.

Three weeks later, the same four destroyers escorted Admiral Hipper as she attempted to intercept Allied merchant ships proceeding independently to Soviet ports in early November.

The Foreign Intelligence Service said Vartanian, whose father was a Soviet intelligence agent in Tehran posing as a merchant, began working for Soviet intelligence when he turned 16.

Before the destruction wrought by the Soviet war and Taliban rule, Mohsen was an affluent merchant; now he wanders the streets while his beautiful wife is confined to home and burka.

The reason for the technological backwardness of the merchant marine were First World induced boycotts of Soviet shipping.