Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government have become increasingly irrelevant as the republics fill the political vacuum created by the failed hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August...
...sincerity of Kravchuk, a former Communist Party boss, became the key campaign issue because he quit the party and embraced the independence drive only after the failed coup...
What's the hardest way to kill yourself? Three bullets to the head certainly ranks. According to Moscow police sources, that was the actual cause of death for coup conspirator BORIS PUGO, the Soviet Interior Minister who was officially described as having "committed suicide" when the August putsch fizzled. As for two other top Communist officials reported to have killed themselves by leaping from windows, sources say they probably were pushed in order to silence them. They apparently knew too much about the smuggling of Communist wealth out of the country as the party collapsed...
...exodus is in large part an unforeseen result of a well-intentioned U.S. policy. After the September coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President, the country plunged even more deeply into violence and deprivation. The suffering has been worsened by a U.S.-backed trade embargo by the Organization of American States designed to pressure the illegal government into restoring Aristide to power. Gasoline and fuel-oil supplies are scarce, and political repression against Aristide's supporters is fierce. More than 400,000 citizens have fled the capital of Port-au-Prince for the countryside. More...
...decision had nothing directly to do with the coup...