Word: belarus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's attack seemed lifted from the cold war, its causes were rooted in what came after: the confusion, chaos and, all too often, the incompetence that have plagued the republics of the old Soviet Union since its collapse in 1991. None of those factors, however, seemed to justify Belarus' reaction to intrusion of its airspace--or placate survivors of the two innocent men who were killed...
...this be the same military behemoth that loomed over NATO for 40 years of cold war? As a matter of fact, no. This is the crippled army produced by the ) breakup of the Soviet Union and the near collapse of the Russian economy. The hardened troops of Ukraine and Belarus, with most of their equipment, are gone. The former Soviet Army's strength of almost 3 million men is now down to less than 1.5 million. The defense budget has been slashed, leaving units in the field with no money for fuel, fleets rusting in port, planes grounded without spare...
Those tensions are not the whole story of U.S.-Russian relations. After their testy exchange last week, Clinton and Yeltsin reconvened at a ceremony that formally put into effect the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty. Under terms negotiated in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan will destroy all their nuclear warheads, while the U.S. and Russia will greatly reduce the numbers they possess. The fact that the ceremony went almost unnoticed testifies to how effectively Washington and Moscow have worked to dispel the once rampant dread of nuclear holocaust. On a lower level, Yevgeni Kozhokin, director of the Russian Institute...
...known in the rest of Europe and in America for The Soccer War, a collection of daredevil reportage from the Third World. Imperium too is a bravura performance, a kind of New Journalism about the Old World. As a youth in Soviet-dominated Pinsk, Poland, which is now in Belarus, Kapuscinski saw friends and teachers disappear -- part of Stalin's mass deportation and resettlement program that aimed to replace diverse nationalities with homo sovietus. This misfortune, as a dour professor in Baku tells the author, threatens present-day peace and stability from the Caucasus to the Pacific. "Now," he says...
Alexander Lukashenko, sometimes called "the Belarus Zhirinovsky" for his vague promises of an easy fix for his economically devastated former Soviet republic, was elected Belarus' first President. The onetime state-farm director won 80% of the vote, campaigning on a platform of anticorruption and stronger economic and political ties with Russia...