Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze put down a coup attempt in Tbilisi and arrived several hours late for still another peace negotiation in Sochi. He and Yeltsin signed an agreement to end the fighting in South Ossetia, a part of Georgia where secessionists demand union with North Ossetia, a part of Russia...
...glimpse of Yeltsin, the team manager, coping with ordinary affairs of state, is in marked contrast to the larger-than-life image of the Russian leader that the world came to know during last August's putsch. He displayed ruthless daring again last December, when he delivered the political coup de grace to Gorbachev and to the empire he ruled. But Yeltsin has been dogged by one persistent doubt: Could he transform himself from a defiant leader of the opposition, bent on destroying the old order, into a competent statesman capable of building...
...connection is Gaidar, who was once director of Moscow's Institute of Economic Policy and an economics editor of the party daily Pravda. Long before they had any possibility of entering the government, the group used to gather to discuss future economic models for Russia. Then, during the coup attempt, Gaidar and friends issued a public statement condemning the economic policies of the putsch leaders. It caught Yeltsin's attention...
Russia's leaders contend that they have learned one important lesson from the events leading up to the August putsch: Gorbachev was too dependent on information filtered to him by his chief of staff, who proved to be one of the coup's ringleaders. Yeltsin is much more open to different points of view -- some would say too accessible. The result has been an occasional glitch between the Prime Minister-President and his government. An air of mystery still surrounds the drafting of a presidential decree merging the police and security forces into one monster agency, which Yeltsin hastily signed...
...delicate move, Thailand's King last week tiptoed past a military-backed contender and, after consultations with political leaders, appointed Anand Panyarachun, 59, a former diplomat and businessman, to be interim Prime Minister for the second time. Initially installed by the military following a February 1991 coup, Anand ran Thailand's most honest and competent government in decades before stepping down last March. His sensitive task now: to organize new elections and extricate the military from politics in response to last month's bloody pro-democracy street clashes...