Word: moscow
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...short-lived government of Imre Nagy, a Communist reformer, mark the moment when it became clear that Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe could not last? Did it give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into the hands of hard-liners, encourage them to crush dissent, and hence plunge half of a continent into a gloom that would last for another 33 years? Did the U.S., which...
DIED. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, award-winning Russian journalist, known globally for her powerful reporting on atrocities committed by the Russian military in Chechnya; after being shot repeatedly by an unidentified gunman as she stepped off the elevator in her apartment building; in Moscow. Her murder, the 13th contract-style killing of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 1999, sparked allegations that the Kremlin might have been involved in the crime. Putin denied the charge, calling the shooting "dreadful and unacceptable...
...likely to raise the danger of a military response from Pyongyang, sending the confrontation potentially spiraling out of control. For China and Russia, the endgame remains restoring the six-party talks and persuading North Korea to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for political, economic and security incentives. Moscow and Beijing - as well as South Korea - agree that North Korea must be punished for its flagrant disregard of Security Council demands that it refrain from nuclear testing. But they don't believe sanctions will force North Korea to change course, and fear that the more pressure they bring to bear...
...poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley had been among the Americans. Vysotsky's funeral grew into the first mass people's demonstration in Moscow, and so scared the authorities that his Taganka Theater was not allowed to stage a memorial performance to pay him homage...
...Moscow, now grown opulent and apathetic on petrodollars and compliant to shrinking freedoms, has not seen such a mass demonstration in years. Nor have other cities like St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg in the Urals, where mass rallies to pay homage to Politkovskaya were also held. The badly divided remnants of once-strong liberal political parties fail to attract more than a few hundred to their rallies now. Perhaps, not unlike 25 years ago, it takes the funeral of an individual of rare honesty, courage and popularity to jolt the people out of complacency - and to the realization that there...