Word: post-soviet
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...sweetened the bells’ tones since Herbert Hoover was president and Ordzhonikidze was minister of industry, but Harvard students trying to get their z’s after a hard Saturday night know all too well how jarring that Eastern tuning can be. The monks have already shouted post-Soviet hosannas to the heavens upon playing the bells briefly—but before they waste too much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls) do their thing...
Over the past six months, Russian oil companies have undergone rapid and considerable consolidation, attracting attention and investment from American and European firms. In April, the country’s biggest and fourth-biggest oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, merged to form the largest Russian company in post-Soviet history; ExxonMobil and Shell immediately announced their interest in joining the new partnership. Prior to this, British Petroleum merged with Russian oil company TNK, and the new company rebounded financially. Such an influx of foreign investment is the first step toward linking Russian oil with the United States...
...Russian people need a history to cling to. The Soviet Union melted away more than a decade ago and since then the terrors of the country’s brave experiment with communism have finally been adequately unearthed. Many Russians can no longer take pride in their broken Soviet past. And as the Orthodoxy regains its centrality in Russian life, the values of old Russia—stressing faith, family and allegiance to one’s country—have begun to provide a new historical legacy to guide post-Soviet Russia. Nicholas, the loving and faithful father...
...fact, Rumsfeld may have inadvertently hit on a significant analogy when, to dismiss "quagmire" fears, he compared Iraq with Eastern Europe in the wake of communism. Saddam's Iraq was certainly more akin to a Stalinist regime than any Arab autocracy. But the difference between it and post-Soviet Russia is that Iraq right now is wholly owned by the U.S. If the U.S. military had been occupying Russia in the wake of communism's collapse, the situation might have been quite different: Like post-Soviet Russians, Iraqis suddenly find themselves enjoying unprecedented freedom to speak their minds. But like...
...role of first among the jihadis. The Saudi aristocrat had been the chief financier of Azzam's organization and a devoted follower since the early 1980s, when he came under Azzam's influence while studying at Jeddah University. Disagreement between master and protege over the shape of a post-Soviet Afghanistan led to a parting of ways in early 1989, and soon bin Laden went off to found al-Qaeda. With Azzam dead, bin Laden assumed ideological seniority in the movement. He would expand the struggle from Muslim territory deep into the heart of the West itself. --By Ghulam Hasnain