Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they are eager to become more...
...cooling the country's ethnic strife will take more than a few dismissals. How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn...
Scherbitsky, regarded as a conservative force both in Moscow and his native Ukraine, was the last Politburo member serving from the time of President Leonid I. Brezhnev. His retirement leaves Vitaly I. Vorotnikov of the Russian republic as the only pre-Gorbachev appointee on the 11 man Politburo...
...measured elsewhere: Unemployment has risen to its highest level in fifteen years. Over 44 percent of the population in Greater Buenos Aires is now living in poverty. And for the first time in recent history, Argentina, which has traditionally prided itself as a haven for German, Italian, Russian and, more recently, Korean immigrants, saw a net flow of emigrants out of the country...
...Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...