Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bugging operation was disrupted by sharp-eyed Gs who were driving near State on an unrelated surveillance last June. They noticed Gusev, a known intelligence officer whose mug shot they had memorized, standing on the sidewalk, and acting "oddly." After alerting their superiors, the FBI operatives set up an intense surveillance of Gusev...
Five anarchists summed up the mood of many voters last week when they hung a banner over the side of Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square. AGAINST EVERYBODY, it read. For what it's worth, pundits are betting that the Communist Party and its allies, led by the leaden-tongued Gennadi Zyuganov, will once again emerge with the largest group in the new Duma, with around 20% to 25% of its 450 members. This would be fine as far as the Kremlin is concerned. It would infinitely prefer that Putin run against Zyuganov rather than Primakov next year. The extreme...
...vehicle for realizing that blueprint is supposed to be the Fatherland movement. Launched late last year at a conference attended by more than 1,000 delegates selected from all over the country and 450 journalists, it was immediately described in the media as the new "party of power," the government in waiting. Fatherland's politics are something of a hybrid, more nationalist in some ways than Yeltsin's but also more socialist in orientation...
Luzhkov, however, has been dogged by a relentless Kremlin smear campaign. Last summer, for instance, rumors circulated that the government was planning to release damning kompromat (compromising materials) about him. One version current in the Duma was that this would take the form of a tape, either video or audio, of Luzhkov ordering the murder of a business rival. No tape ever surfaced, but the prospect of a brutal war of charge and countercharge reinforced the urgings of some of the mayor's advisers: forget about the presidency, back someone else and position yourself to be the great reformist Prime...
Safra's bank last year alerted the FBI to money-laundering operations emanating from Moscow, and Safra was widely reported to have obsessive fears for his life (Bonnant denies the fears). His security guards were recruited from among veterans of Israeli army special units. The night of the fire, however, Safra's entire security force were posted at his nearby villa; Safra was said to have wanted it that way, but it seemed a glaring lapse to leave him without a single guard. According to a Republic National bank spokeswoman, security chief Shmuel Cohen rushed to the apartment after...