Word: secessionist
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GRAPHIC BLACK AND WHITE Moving away from today's bright colors, some designers went graphic. London-based Alice Temperley showed black florals on white, left, while New York City favorites Proenza Schouler, right, and Carolina Herrera, far right, were influenced by the Viennese Secessionist art movement. Or so they...
...ruins. But beneath all that there was a steady thrum of outrage: Why, of all people on the planet, was it the Acehnese who had been hit by this calamity? It seemed so unfair. For 30 years and more, they had been caught between the Indonesian armed forces and secessionist rebels, and had suffered a living hell of rape, torture and violent death...
...third world. Poverty will not magically disappear, corruption will prove difficult to eradicate, ethnic tensions could increase, and democracy itself can backslide toward authoritarian personal rule (e.g., Russia). Nevertheless, democratic rule is almost always a step forward. The problems faced by a new democratic leadership—like secessionist regions in Georgia or control of Kirkuk in Iraq—will have to be faced eventually. Autocratic rule did not solve these problems, and continued repression will only make them fester. Even if a corrupt and autocratic ruler is replaced by another corrupt insider, as may happen in Kyrgyzstan...
...colonel, returned to Chechnya to mastermind the military strategy for its 1994-96 revolt against Russia. Elected Chechen President by a landslide in 1997, he quickly lost support for failing to stop the republic's descent into anarchy. After late 1999, when Russian forces reinvaded Chechnya and overthrew his secessionist government, Maskhadov became a fugitive, constantly on the move and relying largely on couriers for his communications. Three or four bodyguards usually accompanied him, while mobile security teams - most recently, about 15 men posing as pro-Russian strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's police - stayed within radio range if needed...
...groups say is common on both sides) into revealing Maskhadov's whereabouts. The Russians say they tracked down Maskhadov on March 8 in Tolstoy Yurt, 16 km north of the capital, Grozny. It was a typically counterintuitive choice of hideout. Tolstoy Yurt has a long history of opposition to secessionist leaders, and to get there Maskhadov would have needed to pass through several major Russian military checkpoints. It was there, in a house in in the village center that the Russians say they found him, hiding out in a bunker equipped with a bed, heating and not much else. During...