Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev, who has called a multiparty system "rubbish," has good reason to worry. Many non-Russians in the Soviet empire -- Ukrainians and Azerbaijanis as well as Armenians and Balts -- would flock to new parties seeking autonomy from Moscow. The Baltic republics already sport popular fronts and other freshly minted political groups whose members ran as independent candidates in national elections earlier this year and trounced establishment party hacks. In the Russian Republic itself, there is mounting anger and frustration with empty shops and suffocating bureaucracy that could easily swell the rolls of a gaggle of independent parties. Politburo member Yegor...
...Congress of People's Deputies began its winter session in the Kremlin, hundreds of parliamentarians supported debate on altering the party's legal status, indicating the idea is gaining popularity as reforms shake the Soviet Baltic and Eastern Europe...
...first major test only 24 hours after the session began, the Congress rejected a bid by Baltic deputies and members of the reformist Inter-Regional Deputies Group to debate Article Six of the Soviet Constitution that proclaims the Communist Party "the leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system...
...specter is haunting conservatives -- the specter of the end of Communism. Our nightmare, our adversary, our dark doppelganger for the past 40 years seems to be fading away. From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain is buckling. Will conservatism buckle with...
...diplomatic boycott made moral and political sense as long as Baltic independence seemed an impossible dream. Now the policy is applied too rigidly. An Estonian Deputy Prime Minister, Rein Otsason, and the republic's party ideologist, Mikk Titma, wanted to come to the U.S. recently to lay the foundation for what may be the next free government of their country. But the U.S. delayed the visitors' visas and gave them the official cold shoulder once they arrived...