Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bonner said that the Sakharov case is still famous in Russia. "There is not a single person who does not know the name of Andrei Sakharov, whether or not they approve or disapprove of his actions...
...visiting Sandinistas got the message: Mother Russia is hibernating not only from its Western contacts but even from its allies. The Nicaraguans, who had come to Moscow seeking both arms and economic aid, left with little more than the chilly diplomatic note as a souvenir...
...outcome will be influenced by a significant demographic trend: the growing political strength of the Sephardim. Unlike the Ashkenazim, who came from Germany, Poland, Russia and other areas of Eastern Europe, the Sephardim migrated to Israel from such diverse places as Morocco, Greece, Yemen and Iraq. Initially a minority (17% in 1948), the Sephardim now make up 55% of the population and about half the electorate. It is the Sephardic votes that in 1977 swept Begin to power. In the past seven years, the Sephardim, says Author Oz, "have risen from the emotional position of second-class citizens into...
...rebellion against" the right-wing Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet backing. Shamie called Richardson "naive" and said in a statement released by his office, "I would not have joined the Marxist rebels in Salvador, even if they had never been supplied by Cuba and Russia. They have killed innocent people, and terrorized thousands of ordinary El Salvadoreans for trying to vote...
...biographer has painted the tumult and suffering of Russia's past more vividly than Henri Troyat, whose previous subjects include Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Catherine the Great. A master of the purposeful anecdote, the graceful accretion of detail that helps explain motive and madness, Troyat finds the key to Ivan's character in the ruler's early life. The heir to the throne of Muscovy was orphaned at seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows...