Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Soviet Union was disintegrating during the late autumn of 1991, a band of disillusioned demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into...
...gain much presidential luster from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
...only another financial panic, but also a discredited political establishment. Russia's leaders have proclaimed too often that they have found the way to lead the country out of its penury--only to falter. In this case, the currency reserves would run out, and so would the Kremlin's kredit doveriya--its fund of public trust...
...retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political views are hard to discern, but he, like Luzhkov, is a firm nationalist. If either were elected President, he would probably arrive in the Kremlin with colleagues even more extreme...
...they see Indonesia with nukes," says Baumohl. "The same failing economy, the same social unrest. But with Russia, there's that spectre that if the wrong people come to power, we've got the Cold War all over again." Baumohl looks at Viktor Chernomyrdin's return to the Kremlin as a "soft coup" -- but what comes next could be very, very hard...