Word: easternism
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...extraordinary move, Bush, on a tour of Europe to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the World War II on the continent, made little mention of the 1945 defeat of the Nazi regime. He focused instead on the brutal occupation of Eastern Europe by Soviet troops after the war’s conclusion. The president’s comments came as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, wrote in a French newspaper that his government would not give in to demands from Baltic countries for an apology for Soviet domination during the Cold...
...president didn’t stop there, either. In comments that seemed bound to irk Putin, whom Bush visited on Sunday as part of his European trip, the president called for free elections in Belarus, whose president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is among Putin’s remaining friends in Eastern Europe, where former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, are turning westward in increasing numbers...
Bush’s very public pro-democracy stance on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is not likely to win friends in Moscow, where, last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that President Putin had become too powerful and ought to respect democracy. It does, however, demonstrate great apparent consistency in the president’s foreign policy. It seems that George W. Bush might actually be genuinely committed to spreading democracy to those corners of the world in which it is foreign. In that effort, Bush has shown himself ready to break the informal rules...
According to Finard and Company, a commercial real estate service firm in Burlington, between 2000 and 2004 the number of banking firms in Eastern Massachusetts decreased from 268 to 200, while the number of bank branches in the area increased from...
They’ve kept close company in dual races all season long, and a deep Eastern Sprints field is sure to guarantee them of quite a bit more contact with opposing crews...