Sentences with phrase «central asian soviet»

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The basin's water woes began in the 1930s with a Soviet development plan to create a cotton industry in the Central Asian desert.

The fall of the Soviet Union has seen a number of Russian breeds become increasingly popular outside of their homeland including the Central Asian Owtcharka and the East Siberian Laika, the East - European Shepherd has not had the same success.

Karnov is a strongman popularly illustrated as being from an unspecified part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics as shown on the original arcade flyer and again in Karnov's Revenge.

Certainly the formerly Soviet Central Asian countries, aside from the desert country of Tajikistan, show the effects of colonial - type pillage (think of the vanishing Aral Sea and the cotton fields for which it was sacrificed).

Russian scientist Olga Speranskaya was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her work to transform the NGO community in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asian (EECCA) region into a potent, participatory force working to identify and eliminate the Soviet legacy of toxic chemicals in the environment.

BTA Bank, once the Central Asian nation's biggest lender, has accused Ablyazov of embezzling billions of dollars» worth of mines, hotels, shopping centers and other assets in the former Soviet bloc between 2005 and 2009.