Myanmar and the World Bank (WBG) completed three projects within Myanmar: Two railway projects and a project for the Port of Rangoon. The approved fundings for these projects totaled US$14M. No data is available for the ratings or results of these projects. All three of these projects were funded by the IBRD. The WBG was more heavily involved with Myanmar approving 30 projects totaling 63M USD. The sectors of projects included the following: The biggest of these projects in terms of WBG contributions were the Nyaunggyat Dam Multipurpose 1980 project and the Power Project 1982. These projects were US$90M and US$80M respectively. No data is
Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment was a legal penalty in the Soviet Union for most of the country's existence. The legal justification of capital punishment was found in Article 22 of the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Legislation, which stated that the death penalty was permitted "as an exceptional measure of punishment, until its complete abolition". According to Western estimates, in the early 1980s Soviet courts passed around 2,000 death sentences every year, of which two-thirds were commuted to prison terms. The death penalty was not applied to minors or pregnant women. The first person to be sentenced