The visit may help end the Soviet practice of putting dissidents in mental hospitals.

The Soviet practice was to abruptly replace one agent with another.

It has been Soviet practice in the past to use individual human rights cases for diplomatic ends.

The difference can be at least partially explained by the Soviet practice of counting only the prisoners who survived to reach a prison camp.

This was standard Soviet practice at the time.

Confusion was exacerbated by the Soviet practice of mixing missile types within a class of ships.

Soviet practice often was to have two rezidents, one illegal and one a diplomat under official cover.

Vera has a teenage daughter, a product of the Soviet practice of marriage at a very young age.

It is claimed that over 50 new technological processes were introduced into Soviet practice as a result of the Il-86 programme.

Political processes behind closed doors are old Soviet practices for which there is no longer a place in a civilised world.