Word: ivan
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...conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered continued negotiations with the opposition on replacing the country's current interior minister, and TIME's Theodor Troev reports from Sofia that several Socialist leaders have already proposed passing their governing mandate to the opposition party, possibly to form a coalition government. Ivan Kostov, head of the main opposition, said his party would end its 21/2-week boycott of parliament in hope of a compromise. "If there is the will and consensus, Parliament can endorse in a short term the necessary laws, and early elections can be called." Kostov said. But impatient leaders of Bulgaria...
Even if opposition forces get their wish and win the next election, there is no guarantee that they can fix things. When the UDF took over in 1991, it lasted only a year before being tossed out. Its current leader and potential Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, is an unflashy, bureaucratic type who was Finance Minister in the failed UDF government five years ago. He was not, however, a Communist Party member, and he has signed on for market-friendly policies in the past. If the Socialists don't go along, he says, it can only mean that "they want...
...security. Earlier this month, in response to threats that foreigners could be in danger, the Red Cross pulled some of its staff out of the war-ravaged Caucuses republic, which still sees sporadic violence. In Chechnya to discuss further details of the ongoing cease-fire, Russian national security boss Ivan Rybkin wearily condemned the attack and urged Chechen forces to thwart any further shootings. Since a tentative peace was signed in August, Russian troops have almost entirely pulled out from Chechnya, leaving the republic, which has serious secessionist ambitions, essentially to its own devices. Tuesday's shooting serves...
...Kobrinsky, James A. Parson and Nicholas R. Szumski from Eliot House; Katherine L. Bertone from Kirkland House; William W. BurkeWhite, Michael E. Ginsberg, Amy Ozols, Dana A. Remus, Sapna Sadarangani, Jiri Vanicek and Matthew J. Waterbury from Leverett House; Charlene S. Ahn, David W. Chiang, Willow D. Crystal, Ivan Chun Kit Ho and Joyelle H. McSweeney from Lowell House; Brent R. Doran and Phanwadee Khananusapku from Pforzheimer House; Joung W. Hwang, Velin Y. Mezinev and Matthew C. Stephenson from Quincy House; Freeman, Adam B. Kirsch and Carlton F. Larson from Winthrop House
...results illegal." But across town, members said they had the necessary quorum to declare themselves the actual, working parliament, and seemed determined to follow their new ally. "Those people in that other building are just a group of deputies sitting around talking," said one of them, former Communist lawmaker Ivan Pashkevich. "The parliament can work wherever it wants." Parliament had united in recent months in opposing Lukashenko's persistent power-grabbing; since Friday, however, when parliament rejected a Russian-brokered compromise, there have been growing fractures in the anti-Lukashenko group. Meanwhile, its remaining members have vowed to resume impeachment...