Word: armenia
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...believes that time is running out for them. Party hard-liners have been defeated in almost every major election that has been held during the past two years. While communist rule goes unchallenged in the conservative Central Asian republics, the party is virtually a marginal opposition group in Georgia, Armenia and the Baltic republics. Rank-and-file members across the country are deserting the fold in droves. Some 4 million have left the party during the past 18 months, reducing total membership to 15 million...
...south, Armenia has scheduled a referendum on independence for Sept. 21, the first step in the five-year process decreed by Moscow for formal secession. Meanwhile, though torn by violent ethnic clashes, Armenia is actually carrying out one of the reforms proposed by Yeltsin. The republic has sold 65% of its agricultural land to private farmers. Georgia and Moldavia have been too preoccupied by their own ethnic conflicts to do much in the way of economic reform, but they have made it clear that they also want out of the Union -- and in a lot less than five years...
...Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...
...expects Turkey to take in thousands of refugees, it must deliver enough aid to enable the Turks to care for them. So far, the U.S. has not shown the generosity in adversity on which it prides itself -- nothing, for example, like the massive relief dispatched to Armenia when a 1988 earthquake decimated the region...
...remainder of the book, Sakharov recounts his opposition to the inertia demonstrated by the Soviet government in its reform efforts, as well as his activities abroad on behalf of democracy and his theory of rapproachment between socialism and capitalism. The description of a visit to earthquake-devastated Armenia and Azerbaijan reveals Sakharov's compassion and understanding of his country's problems...