* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

The electronics industry, which also was configured in the 1980s to serve Soviet markets, has not been able to compete with Western computer manufacturers.

" In the 1980s, the Federation of Conservative Students alleged Soviet funding of CND.

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.

Although perestroika was considered bold in the context of Soviet history, Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not radical enough to restart the country's chronically sluggish economy in the late 1980s.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

Economic malaise in the 1980s, along with resentment of Soviet oppression, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the associated end of the Cold War, and the democratization and liberalization of the former Eastern bloc countries.

At the end of the 1980s the Soviet Union informed Mengistu that it would not be renewing its defense and cooperation agreement.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

In the 1970s and 1980s, the writings of Hayek were also a major influence on many of the leaders of the " velvet " revolution in Central Europe during the collapse of the old Soviet Empire.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet government came under increased criticism, as did Leninist ideology ( which Gorbachev had attempted to preserve as the foundation for reform ), and members of the Soviet population were more outspoken in their view that the Soviet government had become a failure.

For example, one key meeting location was in the U. S. at the Dakin Building, then owned by American philanthropist Henry Dakin, who had extensive Russian contacts: During the late 1980s, as glasnost and perestroika led to the liquidation of the Soviet empire, the Dakin building was the location for a series of groups facilitating United States-Russian contacts.

Category: 1980s in the Soviet Union

During the same period the Soviet Union experimented extensively with hydrofoils, constructing hydrofoil river boats and ferries with streamlined designs during the cold war period and into the 1980s.

Afghanistan's sovereignty has been held during the Anglo-Afghan Wars, the 1980s Soviet war, and the 2001-present war by the country's many and diverse people: the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Aimak, Baloch, and others.

The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the " era of stagnation " in the 1980s.

However, by the late 1980s, with the weaknesses of its economic and political structures becoming acute, the Communist leaders embarked on major reforms, which led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

The KAB-500KR is an electro-optical TV-guided fire and forget bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1980s.

Two dwarf species, named Orcinus nanus and Orcinus glacialis, were described during the 1980s by Soviet researchers, but most cetacean researchers are skeptical about their status, and linking these directly to the types described below is difficult.

The title of the essay refers to a postal stamp commemorating Philby issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

However, at the end of the 1980s, the Ministry of Defence did not have the financial resources necessary for large-scale purchases of the VAZ-2122.

Despite being appointed to the Ministry of Transport, a role which she was originally unenthusiastic about, Castle could not actually drive herself, and was chauffeured to functions, the Labour politician Hazel Blears driving her at one time as a young Labour party activist in the 1980s.

in 1980s and 1990s who was assassinated by elements from the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic in 1999 as a victim of what was later labeled in Iranian political jargon " chain murders "

In the second half of the 1980s, American and Canadian music groups such as Front Line Assembly, Ministry, and Schnitt Acht started to use typical European EBM elements.

According to U. S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Copies of Lt. Col. Halt's letter regarding the sighting at RAF Woodbridge ( see above ) to the U. K. Ministry of Defense were routinely released ( without addition comment ) by the American base public affairs staff throughout the 1980s until the base closed.

In the late 1970s and through 1980s various special purpose units were created within the KGB and Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ).

In the 1980s, with Japan's growing economy facing a shortage of workers willing to do so-called three ' K ' jobs ( きつい kitsui, 汚い kitanai, and 危険 kiken ), Japan's Ministry of Labor began to grant visas to ethnic Japanese from South America to come to Japan and work in factories.

Originally a new wave-synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s.

Throughout the late 1980s Jourgensen and Barker expanded their ideas beyond Ministry into a seemingly endless parade of side projects and collaborations.

Nevertheless, the land officially remained the property of the Society into the 1980s, building up large property tax bills because the Ministry of Finance could not find an address to which to send tax bills .< ref >" American Colonization Society Still Owns Land in Liberia?

He was the Chief Economic Adviser in the 1980s, Banking Secretary between 1985 and 1989 and Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance.

During the early 1980s he served in a variety of capacities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1985-1986 served as Deputy Chief of Mission for the Israeli embassy in the United States.

In the 1980s, Haaretz reports, the Housing Ministry " then under Ariel Sharon, worked hard to seize control of property in the Old City and in the adjacent neighborhood of Silwan by declaring them absentee property.

After studying at the École Polytechnique from 1976 to 1980, and then at the École nationale d ' administration between 1980 and 1982, Messier held several posts at the French Economy Ministry, including a post as technical counseler for privatization under Edouard Balladur, during the 1980s, before moving to investment bank Lazard Freres in 1989.

Throughout the late 1980s, the 1990s and early 2000s, Atkins performed with many bands, including Nine Inch Nails ( appearing in the video for " Head Like A Hole "), as well as Ministry.

By the late 1980s, the American alternative scene was dominated by styles ranging from quirky alternative pop ( They Might Be Giants and Camper Van Beethoven ), to noise rock ( Sonic Youth, Big Black ) to industrial rock ( Ministry, Nine Inch Nails ).

( Bophuthatswana had an unofficial " embassy " in Israel in the 1980s despite objections from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which did not recognize the bantustan as a state.

Ministry did perform the song several times in concerts in the late 1980s, but it was never released or recorded officially.

Also in the 1980s, the GCSB was split away from the Ministry of Defence, becoming a separate organisation.

* The Ministry of Finances ( often known simply as " Bercy "), built in the 1980s ; the extremity of the building plunges into the river Seine, where two fast boats dedicated to VIP transportation are moored.

Efforts at mutual understanding of the range of beliefs led in 1980s to consultations on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry ( BEM ) through the World Council of Churches, consultations that included the Roman Catholic Church.

Repeated attempts, from the 1950s to the 1980s, by the South Island Local Bodies Association to have the Ministry of Works build the road were made.

BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment to the early 1980s and is now a key university under the Ministry of Education.