Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers wasted time imagining a world without the Soviet Union...
...unimaginable has since come to pass, and now the Crimea is at the center of a bitter territorial row between Russia and Ukraine that threatens to destroy the fragile Commonwealth of Independent States and make enemies out of two nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine...
...revolves around an ironic tribute to the two states' shared history. In 1954 Nikita Khrushchev transferred the region from the Russian Federation to the Ukrainian Republic as a "gift" commemorating 300 years of Russian-Ukrainian unity. But the transfer was largely symbolic. Moscow's writ still ran in the Crimea, just as it did in the time of the Czars. Since last year, however, when Kiev started agitating for independence, Russians in Crimea launched a movement to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia...
...Kennedy School, like half of the academic institutions in America, has offered an invitation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...
Where will the centrifugal disintegration end? Will the Crimea separate itself the way The Nose did in Gogol's story? Will the nuclear button be divided too? Instead of just one -- four, or a whole keyboard? And then what about nuclear civil...