Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openly declared "victory" in a nationally televised address Thursday night, followed by a triumphal tour Friday of Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the lethal B-2 bombers that emerged as the technological heroes of the war. But that evening, faces at the White House turned ashen. Commanders of Russian troops in Bosnia, evidently worried about the fate of Kosovar Serbs, had rumbled into Pristina, Kosovo's capital, despite an earlier understanding that they would not enter until agreement had been reached with NATO on command of the peacekeepers. On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov apologized and said...
...Germany, trying to bring Russia into the peacekeeping fold. Yeltsin came bearing gifts for Clinton meant to "mend ties after a fight": a promise of some flexibility on the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that bans "Star Wars"-style missile-defense systems, and a fat folder of recently declassified Russian information on the JFK assassination. "I am among my friends now," Yeltsin announced, and in return, everybody said he looked great. "He walked a bit stiffly, but he was very forceful," offered national security adviser Sandy Berger. "His behavior was neither erratic or shaky," added Clinton later. Canadian Prime Minister...
...Russian negotiators signed an agreement on Friday in Helsinki that will permit Russian troops to participate in the Kosovo peacekeeping forces. Though initial details were sketchy, Secretary of Defense William Cohen said the agreement "preserves the unity of command necessary to make KFOR an effective military force and gives Russia a unique role by providing for operations of Russian forces within KFOR sectors run by the United States, France and Germany." Russian troops will serve under Russian command and control but they will work with NATO commanders in those sectors. And, of course, they'll free up the runways...
...after all remains in economic free-fall and can't afford to step on the West?s goodwill indfinitely -- Moscow "accepted the inevitable compromise of some sort of parallel command," says Meier. The standoff played well with the domestic audience while it lasted, and says Meier, "it allowed the Russians to feel good about themselves again." Even better, it helped assure that Russian commanders will at least be heard in the weeks ahead when they speak about the numerous issues that will inevitably arise over the pacification of Kosovo...
...brokering a peace deal," says Meier. "Whether or not the IMF and other Western institutions come through with money for Russia depends a lot less on the outcome of a Duma vote on economic reform than on the outcome of the Kosovo conflict." In other words, the most important Russian negotiators in the bid to get Western financial aid may be the ones in armored personnel carriers at Pristina Airport...