Sentence examples for soviet umbrella from inspiring English sources
But officials in Central and Eastern Europe fear that while profits from the pipeline, a joint venture between Gazprom and a trio of German and Dutch companies, will flow to Russian suppliers and German utilities, the long trod-upon countries once under the Soviet umbrella will become more vulnerable to energy blackmail.
The Kremlin vehemently opposes any extension of NATO's defensive umbrella over former Soviet republics, in particular Georgia and Ukraine.
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel was faced with a very effective surface-to-air-missile (SAM) umbrella developed by the Soviets and employed on the Egyptian border.
The observer teams typically work under the umbrella of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an alliance of former Soviet republics controlled by Moscow.
But the Central Asian leaders, struggling to establish independent identities after decades of Soviet domination, seemed in no hurry to duck under a Russian military umbrella or embrace Chinese security assistance.
Kazakhstan, one of the world's leading oil nations, situated in the formerly Soviet Central Asia, is reportedly moving away from a transnational pipeline project to the alternative of the Russian umbrella.
When President Eisenhower returned from a summit with the Soviets in 1955, he gave his remarks in the pouring rain without the courtesy of an umbrella.
The Strategic Defense Initiative was to be an impenetrable umbrella that would keep the United States warm and dry against the ultimate hard rain, a surprise attack by the Soviet arsenal of ten thousand long-range warheads.
