Word: moldavia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Slav-dominated family, and decided to join, provided they are given the status of co-founders. Their move brought together, however loosely, republics with 90% of the old union's people and all its strategic nuclear weapons. Only the small border republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldavia were left temporarily outside the new fold, and they too were thinking of coming...
...been held responsible for the assassination last May of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who sent in troops in July 1987 to bolster the ruling Sinhalese. Does this kind of deep-seated hatred and violence await minority Russians in Ukraine, or Ossetians in Georgia or ethnic Ukrainians in Moldavia? Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia offer a not-too-distant mirror of the mayhem that could be unleashed...
There came a burst of euphoria when the reactionaries' coup failed. Then the headlong dismantling. Here was the famous domino effect in reverse, whole peoples going uncommunist by chain reaction: Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic...
...week. They had been independent countries until 1940, when they were incorporated into the Soviet Union by force, and most Western countries had never recognized that annexation to begin with. But when and under what conditions -- if ever -- should foreign nations recognize the independence of Ukraine, or Kazakhstan, or Moldavia? The question of aid is also sticky. The revolution has prompted some renewed interest, at least in the U.S., in the Grand Bargain, a trade of massive Western economic aid for thoroughgoing Soviet reform creating a true market economy. In one way, the upheaval has increased prospects for such...
...deal with. The acronyms are hardly euphonious or politic. Turgutmakbak, for example, simply turns the new confederation into gobbledygook. Using syllables from some of the republics would be just as untenable. For example, the Belokazakirghuzbek Russukra Union (B.R.U.) would leave out the easily offended states of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. And what would the country's inhabitants be called? Bruskis...