Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparing the special report, McGeary called on a variety of talents at the magazine, including those of our nine-person Moscow staff. Correspondent James Carney, a native Virginian and Russian studies major at Yale, focused on two of his specialties: the nascent Baltic nations and Russia's hard-line conservatives. Reporter Ann Simmons, a British subject with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, spent time with a working-class family to profile its desperate struggle to afford life's necessities...
...Moscow and igniting the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuanians voted their former communist leaders back into power. But the victory of the freshly named Democratic Labor Party does not presume a return to orthodox communism. It testifies instead to the disappointment of the great expectations in the three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the end of Soviet rule would mean the beginning of a wonderful life...
...measure of how much the world has changed that Russians, who were masters of the Baltic republics for 50 years, now complain bitterly of discrimination at the hands of the new governments. In Latvia and Estonia, where Russians make up sizable minorities, the debate over where and how to grant them citizenship rights has soured relations with Moscow and strained ties with Western nations that long supported Baltic resistance. The struggle for independence has been replaced by the more complex and often divisive task of building democratic states from the communist debris. In all three countries, the promise...
...former Soviet army remain in all three countries, despite sporadic negotiations for withdrawal. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, faced with nationalist and economic pressures of his own, halted troop departures to punish Latvia and Estonia for what he termed "blatant discrimination" against ethnic Russians. Watching the political turmoil in Moscow, Baltic leaders are plagued by the fear that a coup could lead hard-liners to use the troops to retake the former republics by force...
...with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...