Word: post-soviet
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...elections for the Duma, the national parliament. Although its 22% showing was not enough to control the Duma, it gave the party and its leader, Gennadi Zyuganov, a strong starting point in the race for the presidency--which is the real center of power in post-Soviet Russia...
...OCTOBER Russian candy company fends off the country's first post-Soviet hostile takeover...
Both space programs have had their share of bugs and kinks lately, and Russia's effort shows signs of the country's post-Soviet economic chaos. Mir's cosmonauts have occasionally run low on spare parts and even food because launches of supply rockets have been delayed or canceled...
...murdering anyone who gets in their way. When Listyev, a popular television host and businessman, was shot down two weeks ago in what police said was a paid-for assassination, it was another brutal killing in a series of shootings, car bombings, kidnappings and gangland battles that have overwhelmed post-Soviet Moscow...
...republics that used to make up the U.S.S.R. Since the giddy days of 1991, when the republics scattered like schoolchildren at recess, independent life in what Russians call the "near abroad" has proved tougher than anticipated. Euphoria has slowly been replaced by disgust at the hardships of post-Soviet life: ethnic strife, political instability and government corruption. In the face of these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such as economic prosperity and domestic tranquillity. The West, to which many of these new nations optimistically looked for salvation, has been...