Word: derzhava
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...commission also rejected the nationalist Derzhava movement of former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi for more flagrant infractions of the same rule that Yabloko violated. Both parties were subsequently reinstated by a ruling of the Russian Supreme Court, but the scandal underscored just how shaky the legal foundation was for Russia's new electoral system. It also showed how, in the absence of clear signals from the top, loyal servants of the President's, like commission chairman Nikolai Ryabov, could quickly move to assert their own personal authority by an overzealous interpretation of the rules...
...bitter public feud that is a Soviet version of the 19th century dispute between Westernizers and Slavophiles, the new Russian nationalists support the notion of derzhava, a strong state, more than they do individual rights and freedoms. They denounce Western culture, "neocolonial" business concessions and attempts to foist a market economy and multiparty democracy on Russia. "Adopting Western political values and thinking has just led this country to disaster," explains Nash Sovremennik editor Stanislav Kunyayev. "The children and grandchildren of the leftist radicals who put Russia through the meat grinder in pursuit of socialist happiness want to do the same...
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