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The 1984 Friendship Games, or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84), was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other Eastern Bloc states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The Soviets organized the Friendship Games, a full-scale multi-sport event, for boycotting countries. [66] The Games were contested in 22 Olympic disciplines (all except association football and synchronized swimming), and in non-Olympic table tennis, tennis, and sambo wrestling. The Soviet Union dominated the medal table, winning 126 gold and ...
This page lists all articles that have been classified as being part of WikiProject Vietnam. It is used in order to show recent changes pertaining to the project. The list currently contains 12,344 articles and was last updated in November 2024.
By the 1960s, the superpowers, the US and the USSR, as well as growing regional power China had had significant influence in Southeast Asia. From 1961 to 1968, the US had had steadily increased its military involvement in Vietnam, providing support for the ostensibly pro-democratic South Vietnam in the form of military advisors (during Kennedy's term [1]) and later ground troops (during ...
The medal body is a yellow circle with a diameter of 37mm, inside is a stylized gold pentangle, in the centre are two hands shaking hands in front of a globe, [1] above are the words "Friendship Medal" (red), below is the word "Vietnam" (yellow) placed on the historical wheel and two branches on both sides, material of 3 micron thick Nico-alloy ...
Vietnam remains a full member of the International Organisation of the Francophonie (La Francophonie) and education has revived some interest in the language. [394] Russian, and to a lesser extent German, Czech and Polish are known among some northern Vietnamese whose families had ties with the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. [395]
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Pages in category "1984 in Vietnam" The following 2 pages are in this category, out ...
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.