Word: russias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice of General Mikhailov to lead a group of journalists on a tour of Russian-controlled parts of Chechnya is an intriguing one. In 1996 he was chief spokesman for the Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired...
...Cubans, entrepreneurship is fraught with migraines, from exorbitant government licenses and taxes to graft. And for those who have no access to dollars, despair--and resentment--is rising. At the same time, Cubans are worried that turning capitalist too quickly could invite the kind of abuses that have devastated Russia's economy. "We want the embargo to end," says a high-ranking Cuban official, "but we're afraid of it happening." The big difference now is that, increasingly, Americans no longer...
...time is ripe, they insist, to invade Cuba again, not with an exile army but with the same products--Nike shoes, burgers and MTV--that have helped promote democracy and capitalism around the world. If the U.S. can do business with erstwhile enemies like China and Russia, they argue, why not with Cuba? "This embargo hasn't helped us move the ball," U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue said last month. "We have carried this anger...
...money or weapons. At the same time, human-rights and environmental lobbyists have been pushing the industry to develop some kind of "certification" program so consumers can know where their diamonds are coming from. Like shoppers buying cheese, gem buyers would be able to choose their diamonds from Africa, Russia or the Americas with full knowledge of what they're buying...
...London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic National only last month to end some 40 percent of its dealings with Russian banks...