Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin?s fickle employ just long enough for Russians to get attached to him, Yevgeny Primakov is back ?- and he?s brought nearly all of Yeltsin?s enemies with him. The former foreign minister, ex-KGB spymaster and sometime prime minister announced Tuesday he would head up the broad Fatherland-All Russia coalition just formed by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. With Yeltsin having promised to step down in 2000 but looking to install a chosen successor (possibly prime minister du jour Vladimir Putin), Primakov's candid 10-minute speech ?- remarkably full of detail for a Russian politician ?- was aimed squarely...
...treaty decreeing that the European Union will have a single currency and thus much closer economic and political integration in 1999. Moreover, Le Pen believed the Socialist victory would provoke a political crisis in which voters would turn to his anti-Europe, France-first movement to save the imperiled fatherland...
...important factor that contributed to the degradation of the value of volunteering was the forced involvement of every individual in the communist party. Starting from the age of four, children automatically became part of the Communist political structures under the organization "Falcons of the Fatherland." I was a Falcon and at the time, I took pride in it. At the age of 10 I became a Pioneer and, I would have become a member of the Communist Party if the Revolution had not come...
Sick or just tired, Yeltsin is due to emerge into the public eye on Aug. 9, the day he will be inaugurated--crowned might be a better word--in a sumptuous ceremony. The Order for Services to the Fatherland will be draped around his neck. Our President, a cantata commissioned for the occasion and performed by artists of the Bolshoi Theater, will urge Yeltsin to "bear the light of freedom down the years to the world...
Unfortunately for Yeltsin, his most important military adventure, the war in Chechnya, has been a disaster, and it is not viewed as a heroic defense of the Fatherland. At this point, the best the campaign can hope to do is neutralize the issue. "We'll settle for appearing serious about reaching an accommodation," says Satarov. "We want the country to understand this is not the kind of illness that can be treated quickly, but the President must be seen to be working the problem vigorously." It is all part of the larger theme, "Yeltsin is trying." Last week he ordered...