Word: perestroika
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...Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika , as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature reserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As a park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
...When I was being accused of not being resolute enough, I said we would need at least 20 or 30 years to put perestroika on track,” he added...
...poll was happening in 1995, when people had been badly affected by the breakup of the country,” Gorbachev said. “When most of the people in Russia lived in poverty and hardship, 42 percent said perestroika was necessary...
...said that it was too early to evaluate fully the impact of perestroika. But he said reforms under his successor, Boris Yeltsin, that moved the country further toward a market economy came with “too high a price”—rampant poverty...