Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transformations under way in Russia, the one at the top will have to be watched most carefully: Boris Yeltsin is turning into Leonid Brezhnev right before our eyes. In a rerun of the Kremlin drama circa 1978, the President is ever more frail and shambling, his eyes glazed and his speech slurred. He rules like a czar--from on high, without much attention to detail, and by decree. Like Brezhnev, Yeltsin has no intention of stepping down, and the people around him will do anything to keep him in power, lest they lose their own. Last week they launched what...
...months ago, I met a Russian lawyer in New York who I asked for suggestions about what I should do during my semester in Moscow. Rather than giving me the usual guidebook trash about the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery, he instead told me, in the imperative tone of a Russian speaking English, "You will go to the Hungry Duck Bar, you will drink and meet girls, you will dance on the bar, you will have a good time...
DIED. ARKADY SHEVCHENKO, 67, Soviet apparatchik turned spook who boldly defected to the U.S. in 1978, when he was Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, and later told all about the Kremlin in the best-selling memoir Breaking with Moscow; of an apparent heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. One of Shevchenko's CIA debriefers was agent Aldrich Ames, the Soviet mole who later sold secrets to Moscow...
...start your week back at work. "In accordance with Articles 83 and 177 of the constitution of the Russian Federation, I announce the dismissal of the government," President Yeltsin told a shocked country in a televised address Monday. It was his first full day at the Kremlin since recovering from a cold Friday -- and whenever he recuperates, Yeltsin likes nothing more than a show of strength...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has another "cold" -- a term, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, that Kremlin flacks use for everything from respiratory ailments to heart trouble. But even more troubling than the state of the Russian president's body is the condition of his mind: "His last trip overseas highlighted real problems of mental acuity," says Quinn-Judge...