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Ruben Gallego. Rubén Marinelarena Gallego ( / ˈruːbən ɡaɪˈɛɡoʊ / ROO-bən gy-EH-goh; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician and former U.S. Marine serving as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. Gallego served and deployed as a USMCR Corporal in the US invasion of Iraq.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. [ 1] It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary (also ...
The American Russian Cultural Association (Russian: Американо–русская культурная ассоциация) was organized in the United States in 1942 to encourage cultural ties between the Soviet Union and U.S., with Nicholas Roerich as honorary president. The group's first annual report was issued the following year.
History of the Soviet Union. The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991 spans the period from the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev 's death until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, and complex systemic problems in the command economy, Soviet output ...
Culture of the Soviet Union. The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–91) began with the ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union quickly became a one-party state under the Communist Party.
v. t. e. The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War. It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet ...
The Supreme Soviet consisted of two chambers, the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities which had equal rights [6] and an equal number of deputies. The Soviet of the Union was elected by constituencies with equal populations while the Soviet of Nationalities was elected on the basis of the following representation: 32 deputies from each Union Republic, 11 deputies from each ...
Washington Summit (1990) The Washington Summit of 1990, also known as the "Two Plus Four" talks, was an international summit in the history of the Cold War in which the United States and Germany gained the Soviet Union 's support for the reunification of Germany by agreeing that NATO needed to be reformed. As part of this effort, US President ...