81.   Crime rose sharply after the Soviet collapse, but figures over the past year show it appears to be leveling off or declining slightly.

82.   Critics claim Zyuganov is a front man and the party is still full of unreformed Communists who were stripped of power after the Soviet collapse and now want revenge.

83.   Cuba, a former Soviet ally, began looking to China for help with its struggling economy after the Soviet collapse a decade ago.

84.   Dealing with the worst economic crisis since the Soviet collapse, Russian leaders have largely ignored the so-called millennium bug.

85.   Despite international acclaim, he remained unpopular at home, where people held him responsible for the Soviet collapse.

86.   Despite his popularity aboard, Gorbachev is widely despised in Russia, where he is blamed for the Soviet collapse.

87.   Despite lingering memories of past conflicts, relations between the two nations have been improving since the Soviet collapse.

88.   Economic relations between Russia and Cuba have stalled after the Soviet collapse, but have improved recently.

89.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was headed to Moscow on Monday for three days of talks aimed at improving Russian-Egyptian relations that have slumped since the Soviet collapse.

90.   Electricity shortages have been near-daily experiences in the country for much of the decade since it won independence with the Soviet collapse.