Word: russias
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...Russia, which had previously helped to maintain a precarious balance of power in the Balkan region, was suddenly in no position to keep the peace...
Vernon, the son of Jewish immigrants to New York City from Russia, studied at the College of the City of New York, where he earned his B.A. cum laude in 1933. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University...
White-knuckle stoicism has never been in short supply in Russia. After all, the country lost 20 million people in World War II but still fought the Nazis all the way back to Berlin. Yet, amid a massive security clampdown following two apartment bombings that killed almost 300 people in Moscow, the prevailing mood is more resigned than defiant. "There?s an overwhelming sense here of powerlessness and very little faith in the government?s ability to protect citizens from acts of terror," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "People are depressed and demoralized but have nowhere to look...
...population for signs of terrorist activity. They claim to be looking for a two-ton consignment of explosives transported to the capital in sugar bags, and have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. "But the bombing reveals a lot of what?s wrong in Russia today," says Meier. "The terrorists are suspected of using locally manufactured high-grade plastic explosives, which would imply that someone in the military is selling it. Then it?s transported through all sorts of checkpoints, probably by bribing officials. And then the perpetrators manage to find experts trained...
While Chechen Islamic separatists ? who are behind the fighting in Dagestan ? have certainly resorted to terror attacks inside Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces...