Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics

•  Phobos program

  The Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 2 became a Mars orbiter and returned 38 images with a resolution of up to 40 meters. Both probes suffered from critical failures. Phobos 1 and 2 were of a new spacecraft design, succeeding the type used in the Venera planetary missions of 1975-1985, last used during the Vega 1 and Vega 2 missions to comet Halley.

  

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•  Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

  The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on May 27, 1988 and came into force on June 1 of that year.

  

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•  Soyuz TM-5

  Soyuz TM-5 was the fifth expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.

  

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•  Soyuz TM-6

  Soyuz TM-6 was the sixth expedition to the Soviet/Russian Space Station Mir.

  

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•  Soyuz TM-7

  Soyuz TM-7 was the seventh expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.

  

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•  1988 Spitak earthquake

  The Spitak Earthquake (also called Leninakan Earthquake and Gyumri Earthquake) was a tremor with a magnitude of 6.9, that took place on December 7, 1988 at 11:41 local time in the Spitak region of Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union. The earthquake killed at least 25,000 people; geologists and earthquake engineering experts laid the blame on the poorly built support structures of apartments and other buildings built during the "stagnation" era of Leonid Brezhnev.

  

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•  Law on Cooperatives

  The Soviet Law on Cooperatives, enacted in May 1988, was perhaps the most radical of the economic reforms during the early part of the Gorbachev era. For the first time since Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy, the law permitted private ownership of businesses in the services, manufacturing, and foreign-trade sectors. The law initially imposed high taxes and employment restrictions, but it later revised these to avoid discouraging private-sector activity.

  

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•  Geneva Accords (1988)

  The Geneva Accords, known formally as the agreements on the settlement of the situation relating to Afghanistan, were signed on 14 April 1988 between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the United States and the Soviet Union serving as guarantors.

  

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•  Sumgait pogrom

  The Sumgait pogrom (also known as the Sumgait Massacre or February Events) was an Azeri-led pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait in Soviet Azerbaijan during February 1988. On February 27, 1988, large mobs made up of ethnic Azeris and other ethnicities formed into groups that went on to attack and kill Armenians both on the streets and in their apartments; widespread looting and a general lack of concern from police officers allowed the situation to worsen.

  

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•  Little Vera

  Little Vera, produced at the Gorky Film Studio and released in 1988, is a film by Russian film director Vasili Pichul. The title in Russian is ambiguous and can also mean "Little Faith," symbolizing the characters' lack of hope (or a glimmer thereof). The film was the leader in ticket sales in the Soviet Union in 1988 with 54.9 million viewers, and was the most successful Soviet film in the US since Moscow Does not Believe in Tears.

  

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•  Sławomir Mrożek

  Sławomir Mrożek (born 29 June 1930) is a Polish dramatist and writer.

  

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•  Protic solvent

  In chemistry a protic solvent is a solvent that has a hydrogen atom bound to an oxygen as in a hydroxyl group or a nitrogen as in an amine group. More generally, any molecular solvent which contains dissociable H, such as hydrogen fluoride, is called a protic solvent. The molecules of such solvents can donate an H (proton). Conversely, aprotic solvents cannot donate hydrogen. Polar protic solvents are solvents that share ion dissolving power with aprotic solvents but have an acidic hydrogen.

  

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•  Cher Doll Records

  Cher Doll Records is a small independent record label founded in Seattle, Washington by Nancy Ostrander in 1993. The label released records for several indie-pop bands including Neutral Milk Hotel's first single on a two sided seven-inch record.

  

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•  Hindané

  

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•  Anza (tribe)

  

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