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Answer for the clue "Old Russian council ", 6 letters:
soviet

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES communist/Soviet etc propaganda ▪ Much communist propaganda was about the evils of capitalism. the Roman/British/Soviet etc empire ▪ The Barbarians finally overthrew the Roman empire. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, from Russian sovet "governing council," literally "council," from Old Russian suvetu "assembly," from su "with" (from *su(n)- "with, together," from PIE *ksun- "with") + vetu "counsel." The whole is a loan-translation of Greek symboulion "council ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Soviets (singular: soviet; , , literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union , and which gave the name to the latter state.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Usage examples of soviet.

Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

The Soviet bombers climbed steeply on afterburner, activating their own look-down radars to find targets for their missiles.

The man advising Roosevelt during this transaction was Alger Hiss, Soviet agent.

Torriti turned in a complete circle, as if he were winding himself up, then asked if Angleton was aware that Philby had signed out MI6 Source Books on the Soviet Union long before he became involved in Soviet counterespionage.

You knew from Angleton that the Americans had deciphered bits of text that identified Maclean as the Soviet agent HOMER.

Another African nation was delivered, trussed and tied, to Soviet sovereignty, and millions of black Angolans were condemned to another decade of brutal civil war.

Eventually, over the years, the Caspian Sea station was able to produce an electronic map of virtually all the ground-based Soviet missile-tracking radars, including the antiballistic missile radar systems at a test range a thousand miles away.

Beyond that is a pine forest in which is hidden a very sophisticated phased-array radar site that is the command center for all the Soviet antiballistic missile silos around Moscow.

Those older weapons were the Soviet RPD-series 40mm antitank free-flight missile and the American 66mm light antitank weapon.

The quartermaster had begun making notations showing the Soviet submarine running alongside the track of the Archerfish as soon as the data had come in from sonar.

East USS Archerfish The Skagerrak East of the North Sea It was some thirty hours since Alek Kondrachev had made his suggestion that the SEALs land on Soviet territory.

ZULU 67 221 North, 43 T East USS Archerfish The White Sea Union of Soviet Socialist Republics It had been a long, slow trip in from the Skagen to the mouth of the White Sea.

A Turkic dialect, Azerbaijani is spoken by several million people in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan and the contiguous areas of Iran and Afghanistan.

The only reason the Soviet Union occupied the eastern half of Poland was that the Polish state was internally bankrupt, the government had disintegrated, and the Ukrainians and Belorussians in Poland, cousins to their Soviet kindred, were left to the mercy of fate.