Word: post-soviet
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...city's noviye bogati, or nouveaux riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize Moscow's Volvo and Mercedes dealerships, pamper themselves with Estee Lauder "exclusive skin-care consultations" and blithely plunk down the equivalent of an average worker's monthly pay for French champagne and Danish liqueur candies at the gilded- mirror displays in Yeliseyevsky Gatronom, the grande dame of Moscow supermarkets...
...country where air crashes last year killed nearly five times as many people as in 1987. This year the numbers are even worse: already, 195 people have died in what is becoming the deadliest season in the history of Russian civil aviation. Indeed, so dangerous have the post-Soviet skies become that this week the International Airline Passengers' Association will begin advising its members "not to fly to, in or over Russia. It's simply too dangerous...
Moscow's neighbors fret over a post-Soviet empire...
...many Russians, Victor Chernomyrdin, 55, is the only politician besides Yeltsin with the toughness, stability and integrity of character needed to pull the post-Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate state-planning ideology of the red managers." To the West, Chernomyrdin appears little better than a dark horseman of Russia's impending apocalypse -- a flashback to Brezhnevite stagnation whose disdain for the most basic prescriptions of capitalism threatens to destroy reform...
...there has been no official repudiation or even criticism of the cynical policy proclaimed by Russia's Foreign Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, at the United Nations: "Russia realizes that no international organization or group of states can replace our peacekeeping efforts in this specific post-Soviet space." This is nothing less than an abbreviated version of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted Moscow's right to intervene in the former Communist world...