11.  Aside from producing his own work, Lissitzky played a crucial role as a bridge between the avant-garde of Western Europe and the artists of the new Soviet state.

12.  Back when nearly every musician allowed to perform repaid the Communist Party leadership with patriotic songs about the Soviet state, Pugacheva stuck to her own program.

13.  Boris Groysberg, a doctoral candidate whose family hails from the former Soviet state of Belarus, sat across the table from Prats.

14.  -- A reduction in foreign aid to Russia and other former Soviet states unless they sever military aid to Cuba.

15.  A similar situation is occurring in other former Soviet states.

16.  But his cynical humor nonetheless nipped at the edges of the acceptable of the intolerant Soviet state.

17.  But Russian society as a whole has avoided scrutiny over its role in propping up the Soviet state.

18.  By and large, Washington has taken the view that it has little or no role to play in quelling ethnic and civil conflicts within the former Soviet states.

19.  Finding the common values, though, in the variety of democracies operating in the former Soviet states is tough.

20.  For instance, he said that US officials were closely watching the spread of multi-drug resistant TB, especially in Russia and other former Soviet states.