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...democratic institutions. The ranks of the new dissidents are swelled by unlikely recruits - men such as Alexei Kondaurov, who, as a major-general of the kgb's Fifth Main Directorate, was responsible for crushing ideological subversion in Soviet days. Kondaurov is now a member of the Duma's Communist Party faction, and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of his friend and former employer, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed Yukos, Russia's biggest private oil company. Khodorkovsky is currently in jail after having been convicted on tax evasion and fraud charges that he says are bogus. "I'm amazed at myself," says...
...feel free to defend their prerogatives in any way they choose is one that brings back bad memories. Russia's leaders should not be surprised if they discover that, outside its borders, those who have wished the country well as it has emerged from the long nightmare of communist rule remember the years of poison and the gun - and shudder at what is happening...
...flurry of conspiracy theories, including speculation among defenders of the government that the poisoning was arranged by Russian émigrés or Western intelligence agencies to discredit Moscow. But for many Russian élites, the whole macabre spectacle has heightened anxieties about the Putin government's backsliding into communist-era intrigue and repression. "People who question the policies of our government are increasingly targeted. People who work for human rights are increasingly under attack," says Alexeyeva. "And even people who support this work are potentially in danger of being singled out by the government. So are we in Russia...
With 1,000 new cars a day joining the nearly 2.8 million vehicles already clogging Beijing's streets, the Communist Party will certainly have to order similar drastic measures during the entire 17-day duration of the Games, if not sooner. That could leave Beijing's newly prosperous residents digging out their old rusty bicycles. At least they'll be riding in cleaner air for a few weeks...
...When the Earth Moved This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1956 revolt against Hungary's communist government and its Soviet-imposed policies. What began as a heroic student demonstration ended tragically with a Soviet invasion. TIME's Nov. 5, 1956, story described the hopeful beginnings of the uprising...