Word: russianizing
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Within 48 hours, the whole façade falls apart. As soon as it is time for action, the will evaporates. Beijing reverses course. The U.S. waters down its proposed resolution. At Russian and Chinese insistence, the unanimously approved Security Council resolution imposes mere inconveniences that do nothing to threaten the regime's survival...
DIED. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, award-winning Russian journalist, known globally for her powerful reporting on atrocities committed by the Russian military in Chechnya; after being shot repeatedly by an unidentified gunman as she stepped off the elevator in her apartment building; in Moscow. Her murder, the 13th contract-style killing of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 1999, sparked allegations that the Kremlin might have been involved in the crime. Putin denied the charge, calling the shooting "dreadful and unacceptable...
RAMZAN KADYROV, Prime Minister of Chechnya, denying any role in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote articles alleging that he perpetrated human-rights abuses...
...ethics inquiry had centered on allegations that the economist violated Harvard conflict-of-interest rules by making private investments in the Russian economy while advising a federally funded and Harvard-run aid program in the country...
...mismanaged the Shleifer case by acting without consulting the committees that had investigated the matter.The seven-member Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), along with a three-member investigating subcommittee, scrutinized Shleifer’s purported role in conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by making private investments in the Russian economy while he helped advise a federally sponsored and Harvard-run aid program there.In recent weeks, however, Knowles’ silence on the matter has disturbed members of the CPC and the investigating subcommittee. Several committee members are upset with the dean’s management of the issue...