Word: coups
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Plokhii left the Soviet Union to teach full-time in Alberta in 1991, just after witnessing the attempted August Coup in Moscow against then-premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an event that marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...years. Between 1992 and 2000, the government developed only 1,572 lots to house 7,500 people. According to his research, by 2028 approximately 13,100 leases will have expired, forcing at least 3,500 farming families to seek resettlement. Last month, Fiji's new government, installed in a coup last year by Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama, announced it had set aside $1 million for Squatter Upgrading and Resettlement in the 2007 revised budget. The Minister for Women, Social Welfare and Housing, Adi Laufitu Malani, has promised more will be done to provide "social housing for squatters," once the administrative...
...Some people see the establishment of your government as a military coup by stealth. Only a lack of understanding and appreciation of the situation in Bangladesh would provoke that kind of a comment. As I said earlier, the conditions under which we came to power are constitutional, and the military in Bangladesh really respects the rule of law and the constitution. Certainly, the military is backing my government. It's called upon to aid the civil administration in times of emergency-natural or man-made. That's not unknown in many [other] countries...
...were punctuated by a series of happy, soporific encounters. The man sitting next to me at the only Internet caf? in town turned out to be the son of a famous dissident. At an excellent Portuguese seafood restaurant, I met Alecio Costa, a former mercenary who'd staged a coup in 2003 and held power for a week before, you know, realizing he really couldn't be bothered to exercise it, and giving it back. I roused the head of the National Petroleum Agency from his siesta and interviewed him as he sat bare-chested on his verandah with...
...Foreign diplomats and government officials this week questioned Musharraf's judgment. Some have suggested it's the beginning of the end for the military man who seized power in a 1999 coup. "I think he has ruined himself," says Lieutenant General (Rtd) Hameed Gul, the former director general of Pakistani intelligence organization Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). "He's not going to be able to placate the forces he has unleashed...