Word: russianizing
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...elaborate charade of feigned friendship between Putin and President George W. Bush, begun several years ago when Bush testified to the alleged spiritual depth of his Russian counterpart's soul, hasn't helped. The fact that similarly staged "friendships"--between F.D.R. and "Uncle Joe" Stalin, Nixon and Brezhnev, Clinton and Yeltsin--ended in mutual disappointment did not prevent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from boasting not long ago that U.S.-Russian relations were now the best in history. Surely it would be preferable to achieve a genuine, sustainable improvement before staging public theatrics designed to create the illusion that...
America's relationship with Russia is on a downward slide. President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to retarget Russian missiles at some of America's European allies is just the latest flash point...
...Chechnya reversed the ambiguous trend toward democracy in Russia. Mercilessly waged by Putin with extraordinary brutality, it not only crushed a small nation long victimized by Russian and then Soviet imperialism but also led to political repression and greater authoritarianism inside Russia and fueled chauvinism among Russia's people. Putin exploited his success in stabilizing the chaotic post-Soviet society by restoring central control over political life. The war in Chechnya became his personal crusade, a testimonial to the restoration of Kremlin clout...
...permitted for centers’ expansion abroad. The goal of the Berlin office, created by the Center for European studies, is to facilitate transnational discussion. Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, Greece, coordinates study abroad, faculty research, internships, and summer school. The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, which in the early 1990s had an office in Moscow, Russia, now has a single woman working from her home to help with logistics, research support, and visas...
...Literature and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great” or the critique of utilitarianism I learned in Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—also came to me as something of a sudden realization, this one during Russian class as we were reading a short story by Chekhov. The lesson, contained in the text itself, was the simple phrase: “Everything in the world is beautiful...