Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavy economic price." In Paris last month, Gorbachev's adviser Andrei Grachev said if Lithuanians cannot be convinced that it is in their interest to remain in a new federation, "they make the decision, and no one can prevent them from fulfilling it." Says the Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes: "During the Civil War, there were strong imperial patriots who made keeping the country together their highest priority. Now I do not see any strong constituency for maintaining the empire with blood and violence...
...certainly sees himself to be so. He has threatened to resign at least three times during the past five years, with little worry that his offer would be accepted. "Gorbachev is a superb actor," says the Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes. "He rants to effect but is always in control. Like Reagan, he has a real sense of mission, but he is also a master of strategy and tactics, like Richard Nixon. And if you recall that Abraham Lincoln held off before freeing the slaves, and then consider how Gorbachev is astutely waiting for the time to be ripe before...