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When temperatures fall in Russia, food is harder to find in the cities and prices rise. The sting in the air makes shopping even more of a hardship. As citizens trudge from store to store in the dark, their frustration is, as it has always been, aimed at their leader in the Kremlin. But unlike the Czars and the General Secretaries before him, Yeltsin does not rely on terror to enforce the silence and passivity of the populace. Instead, he has to address its grievances and contend with its elected representatives...
...supposed to be better in the Baltics. No one doubted the difficulty of exchanging Soviet authoritarianism for market capitalism and democracy, but because of their European heritage and compact size, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were expected to make the transition with greater speed and less hardship. Many Balts welcome an abundance of consumer goods and the establishment of national airlines as signs of their success. Estonia has even abolished the dual economy that split society between the elite few with access to Western currencies and the masses who could shop only with rubles. But consider...
...Russian communities have not organized any broad-based resistance movement to protest the alleged discrimination. The main reason is economic: for all the hardship in the Baltics, most Russians know that life across the border is far worse. "We're between two fires," says Dmitri Klenski, an Estonian-born Russian. "There is nothing for us in Russia, and no one wants us in Estonia...
What the world sees is not always reassuring. The Lithuanian elections serve as a warning that there is a limit to the burdens people will endure for the sake of political and economic reform. But even though hardship and turmoil have plagued their first 12 months of freedom, the Baltic states sacrificed too much in the struggle for independence to forfeit their dreams of a better life. Few Balts, after all, would trade their nation's future -- however uncertain -- for its past...
Brennan said he chooses his local staff on the basis of "hardship, willingness to work and attitude," and with intent to keep the staff demographically diverse...