Word: dictatorship
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...Berezovsky is also concerned with protecting the rights of parliament and other elected bodies from Putin's attempt to centralize power. He concedes that Russia's democracy right now is deeply flawed, but insists that a flawed democracy is better than a dictatorship...
...President Abdurrahman Wahid arrived at the presidential palace in central Jakarta last October, his spirits and those of the country were riding high. After 32 years of Suharto's dictatorship and 17 months of interim rule by Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing...
...novel is, ostensibly, the coming-of-age story of its narrator, Mugezi, who is born in a tiny Ugandan village in the early 1960s and who grows up to witness firsthand his country's plunge into chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides...
...Moscow and Beijing - to South Korea left Dear Leader Kim Jong Il little choice but to make nice with President Kim Dae Jung. But it remains to be seen whether Kim's Chinese patrons have convinced him to emulate their "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (i.e., capitalism under Communist party dictatorship), or whether he's simply going through the motions to improve his geopolitical position and attract more aid. After all, the worst military confrontation between North and South since the 1953 cease-fire took place barely a year ago, when a Northern vessel that had infiltrated Southern waters was sunk...
...after the former dictator, a few weeks ago the heads of the different branches of the armed forces met with Pinochet to publicly offer their support. While a substantial part of the military would like to forget Pinochet and move on, there are still elements who believe what the dictatorship did was necessary to root out communists." But even if they growl a little, Chile's generals are not expected to bite. "Short of overthrowing the government again, which they're very unlikely to attempt, the military is unlikely to have much leverage over Pinochet's fate," says McGirk...