Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...
...crowd at the state-sponsored rally loudly cheered deputy Slavcho Trnski, who launched an unprecedented attack on Zhivkov during the parliament session. Marchers carrying banners for perestroika and waving Bulgarian flags chanted, "Zhivkov to court...
...first harsh public criticism of Zhivkov, 78, who gained power shortly after Josef Stalin's death with the aid of the Soviet dictator's supporters, and ran the country in a rigid, Stalinist fashion. The attack also came during the first-ever live television broadcast of a Bulgarian Parliament session...
...leader also called on the unicameral parliament--traditionally a rubber-stamp body for party decisions--to take a more active role in "controlling" party and government work...
...parliament, he said, has been "deprived of its legal rights...[and] turned into a facade of people's power...