Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boris Yeltsin clearly isn?t expecting a quick victory in Chechnya. The Russian president plans to take a vacation later this month, his spokesman announced Friday, explaining that Yeltsin needed "a breather." Meanwhile, down in Chechnya his army was beginning to suffer severe casualties at the hands Chechen forces. And the Russian forces appeared to be racking up the collateral damage, too ?- 40 refugees fleeing the fighting were killed Tuesday when a bus was struck by an artillery shell, reportedly fired by a Russian tank. Moscow has dismissed the report as disinformation, but a New York Times reporter interviewed survivors...
...also can [receive gifts] which are marvelous, although not quite directly planned," said FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles. For example, Knowles said the Davis family chose to endow the Davis Center for Russian Studies because it was a subject they felt passionate about...
Marshall L. Goldman, associate director for the Davis Center for Russian Studies, said Harvard has provided its students with a rare opportunity for scholarship by purchasing the archives...
Goldman said the Russian government made the archives available for sale due to extreme financial difficulties. Harvard's purchase was finalized in late March, although not without some last-minute drama...
Mark N. Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, said that while the $600,000 the O'Neills paid for the archives was substantially less than the amount the Russian government initially demanded, it still was more than Harvard was otherwise willing...