Word: oblast
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...less talk of peaceful coexistence, and its striving for Chinese pre-eminence over Moscow in Asian affairs. A sign of Russian worry over Red China's ambition came last week in one of those veiled moves that can have considerable significance in the Communist world: the obscure Soviet oblast (province) of Tuva, on the border of the undecided satellite of Outer Mongolia, was abruptly raised to the status of an "autonomous Soviet Republic...