Word: moscow
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...people, divided among several tribal and linguistic groups, united only by its military and by Islam - and that in many different stripes of tradition, conservatism and modernity. Pakistan and its military leaders were key allies of the U.S., supporting the mujaheddin war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union after Moscow invaded and occupied that country. That Afghan war, which ended with the Soviet defeat in 1989, assumed a religious nature in the Islamic world and, as it came to a close, fostered the rise of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime that eventually took over most...
...Nationalism is on the rise again in Serbia due to the imminent secession of Kosovo, the mostly ethnic-Albanian province which is seeking independence from Serbia with the backing of the West, while Belgrade - backed by Moscow - remains fiercely opposed. Following the footsteps of Milosevic, Seselj is also expected to use the courtroom as a platform for further hate speech, thus advancing the electoral prospects of his deputy Tomislav Nikolic, who is running for president in Serbia's January elections. Nikolic, the caretaker of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party in Seselj's absence, is running neck-and-neck with incumbent...
...seeing his play The Coast of Utopia, about Russia's radical 19th century philosophers, staged for the first time in Moscow...
...quite an eloquent experience - eloquent about the place theater has in different countries. Because it was so much about its content in Moscow. There was a kind of simplicity about it. It didn't concern itself with titillating the audience's desire for beautiful pictures, and a stunning, huge production. It was quite clear that what was important about these historical characters was not just that they were onstage at all, but mostly that they were being treated with a certain amount of irony, which they were not used to. I think it was slightly shocking for many Russians...
...Caspian oil profits. But the U.S. has only emboldened both countries by trying to inoculate itself against the Iranian threat with a missile shield that it resolutely tries to place on Russia's doorstep. Rice was made to wait 45 minutes at an Oct. 12 meeting in Moscow, only to have Putin stride in and mock the missile shield. "We may decide someday to put missile-defense systems on the moon," he said, "but before we get to that, we may lose a chance for agreement because of you implementing your own plans." Rice was restrained in response...