1.   Before the Soviet breakup, he lived with the expectation of spending his days fighting for Olympic medals.

2.   Both have lost substantial territory in separatist wars since the Soviet breakup, have had governments fall in coups and are burdened by large refugee populations.

3.   After the Soviet breakup, Russia assumed responsibility for the bonds and met all payments on time.

4.   But today it is enduring something no one forecast, a widespread energy shortage that is contributing to a rise of labor unrest five years after the Soviet breakup.

5.   Six years after the Soviet breakup, a vast tide of oil profit is about to hit this Caspian Sea nation, a new darling of Western strategic thinkers.

6.   That was the lesson of the Soviet breakup, the Mexican and Asian economic crises, the fracturing of Yugoslavia.

7.   The illicit caviar trade boomed after the Soviet breakup, when firms were allowed to export the fish eggs directly.

8.   They say Americans supporting human rights thirst for enemies after the Soviet breakup and select China for the role.

9.   After the Soviet breakup, Yeltsin changed the anthem and state symbols by decree.

10.   After the Soviet breakup a decade ago, Cuba was plunged into an economic crisis that it is still trying to recover from.