Word: moscow
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...first term of President Vladimir Putin, who appointed him economic adviser in 2000, he has been outspoken in his efforts to curb state interference in the economy, especially in the all-important energy sector. "He's one of the smartest people in Russia," says William Browder, founder of a Moscow-based investment fund. But last week Illarionov, 44, abruptly resigned. "When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy," he explained. "Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction." In an interview with Time, he implied that he had been under pressure to stop...
...been muzzled, the judiciary controlled; regional governors are now appointed by Putin rather than elected; and the activities of political parties have been harshly curtailed. "The trends that have been long accumulating," Illarionov says, "found their completion and finally shaped up in 2005." Lilia Shevtsova, senior analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center in Moscow, laments that Putin has "abandoned even halfhearted attempts at deregulating the economy, pursuing administrative reform or curbing corruption." Instead, she says, "Russia is completing the creation of a post-Soviet state, which continues the Russian tradition of authority raised high above society." All of this clearly...
...scene—as well as the disconnectedness between characters, as each is too absorbed in their personal misery to worry about others’. Nothing much actually happens in the play. The title characters (as well as their brother, Andrei) make up a family who once lived in Moscow and still dream of returning, but they are too stuck in their unhappy lives in small-town Russia to dare to make such a drastic shift as a move to the city. Moscow becomes a symbol of everything their lives are not, holding the potential for the radical changes...
...European country of some 10 million educated, skilled and remarkably law-abiding people. Lukashenko's hold on power is shored up by the Kremlin, where Russia's leaders are as determined as he is to prevent another people's revolution. In an interview last July on tvts, a Moscow-based channel, Lukashenko made his position plain: "I will defend my state and my presidential power with weapons." Even so, dissidents are agitating for change. Ten parties, ranging from nationalists to communists, agreed in October to nominate physicist Alexander Milinkevich, a former university professor and vice mayor of the city...
...services, education and pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that the old-fashioned way. Every corner of the 208,000-sq-km country comes under his iron fist. He personally appoints...