Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed like a charade to oppose specific violations of law but not to oppose the general absence of rights in a police state, where the law could be ignored with impunity by any government officer didn't make sense. Rubenstein makes clear there are no independent judicial institutions in Russia and--no dissident has ever been tried and found innocent--there is a total disregard for legality at all levels of the government...
...pitiful the big three, America-Russia-China, don't disarm and join to employ-feed-clothe-shelter-healteach humankind?! Henry Ratliff...
...artists and artisans known as the constructivists wanted to change their country through art and design, creating not just a style but a new "rational" man. All the conditions in which art can be politically effective-illiteracy, no mass media, belief in icons and so forth-were there in Russia; and yet the efforts of this supremely gifted nucleus of artists was snuffed out, by 1930, by Stalin...
Last week the Yamal gas reserves were the subject of intense negotiations in Paris, Brussels and The Hague, and of high-level worries in Washington. The Soviet Union has proposed building a natural-gas pipeline from the remote Siberian peninsula, 3,000 miles across the heart of Central Russia to Western Europe. Its partners in the project are to be the major Continental countries. They will lend the Soviets $10 billion to $15 billion to cover the entire construction cost of the project, and provide their best technology and equipment in return for a supply of 40 billion cubic meters...
Nailed down by 5000 mile border with 1,000,000,000 hostile Chinese, snarled in Poland and Afghanistan, with 40,000,000 restive Soviet muslims, only 240,000,000 population to defend area twice continental U.S.A.: how, Ron, is Russia to build world communist state? Henry Ratliff