There have been indications of a gradual thaw.

(Khrushchev s Thaw and Gorbachev s Perestroika happened the same way.)

Nonsense. They'll thaw out this summer, and that will be it.

Even if we thaw that, we've got little chance of getting it to perfuse.

But the thaw in EU Belarus relations needs to be based on reciprocal, permanent steps.

But Khrushchev never envisioned the breakup of the Soviet empire as part of his thaw.

To tell the truth, I sort of hoped maybe it would thaw you out a bit.

At dawn, the cold blooded iguanas thaw from the night's chill absorbing the heat of the equatorial sun

However, the seeds of a new wave of reform have taken root, and await an early thaw to sprout.

Soon, the gulag was virtually emptied a political thaw began, spurring whispers of freedom that could not be contained.

It was made into a 1961 film, when during the Khrushchev Thaw, Grin's works enjoyed a revival of popularity.

Despite this ideological thaw, however, we still have arms trafficking and nuclear arsenals and, therefore, a serious threat to peace.

An atmosphere of mortal fear, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the Communist elite was the catalyst for Nikita Khrushchev s post Stalin thaw.

Soon, the snow in the hills above Kathmandu will begin to melt. But Nepal's political landscape is showing no sign of a thaw.

Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime s survival.

Can Putin s dual monopoly survive them? Perhaps, but it will do so only if it risks deep change, a new perestroika rather than simply a thaw.

Nikita Khrushchev s 1950 s thaw allowed for his wife, Nina, to accompany him on trips abroad, presenting a homey image of communism with a human face.

So it was that on the twenty ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.

With the end of the Cold War, and India s reorientation of its foreign policy, as well as its increasing integration into the global economy, a thaw set in.

The international community must also be heartened by the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco and by an apparent thaw in relations between Israel and Syria.

All three parties involved will need to tread with care to make certain that the thaw in China Taiwan relations is not set back by this proposed arms deal.

They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the legacy of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new reign.

The Khrushchev thaw that followed may have been short lived, but for the first time in Soviet history the possibility of change was opened a possibility that Mikhail Gorbachev seized upon in 1985.

But, even if he does, as seems likely, Chávismo without Chávez implies a more subdued role for Venezuela in Latin America and the world and perhaps a thaw in relations with the comandante s imperialist bogeyman.

The New Delhi meeting marked a temporary thaw, yet even as Pakistan s foreign secretary returned home to Islamabad, suspected Taliban bombers had attacked an Indian medical mission in the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 11 people.

In parts of Moldova and Georgia and in the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh, the OSCE is actively trying to resolve conflicts that are sometimes referred to as frozen, but which have recently started to thaw.

Warmer and increasingly unpredictable conditions threaten the livelihoods of Saami communities. The changing climate poses a huge threat to reindeer that struggle to find enough food when thaw and freeze cover the ground under layers of ice.

There are already some positive signs of a bilateral thaw as a new administration prepares to take office in Taiwan, with high level talks taking place between China s President Hu Jin Tao and Taiwan s Vice President elect Vincent Siew.

The paradox is that, in the Soviet era, his art was used, briefly, as a force for liberation, because Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in order to buttress his anti Stalin thaw.

With the end of the Cold War, and India s reorientation of its foreign policy, as well as its increasing integration into the global economy, a thaw set in. India s detonation of a nuclear device in 1998, however, triggered a fresh round of US sanctions.

There are already some positive signs of a bilateral thaw as a new administration prepares to take office in Taiwan, with high level talks taking place between China s President Hu Jin Tao and Taiwan s Vice President elect Vincent Siew. The democratic world has an obligation to support this process not only because Taiwan deserves its support, but also because engaging more with Taiwan could potentially be a powerful instrument of leverage for broader change in China.