Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KOREAN AIR LINES FLIGHT 007. Shot down over Soviet airspace, Sept. 1, 1983; 269 killed. The company later changed its name to Korean...
...State Department maintains, publicly at least, that Yeltsin is firmly in charge and overseeing the latest game of Kremlin musical chairs with some skill. In Moscow, however, his frequent disappearances reinforce the perception that the country has already entered the post-Yeltsin era, with the enfeebled President--like the Soviet-era leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Konstantin Chernenko--wielding power in name only. This in turn deepens the fear, often voiced in Western capitals and in Russia, that chaos in the Russian Federation is always lurking just below the surface of daily life. Even the top echelons of Russia's government...
...Soviet emigre, I find it ironic and sad that the Russians, still trapped in a classic Soviet mind-set of blind trust in official propaganda, are easily manipulated by their current "free" press and "democratic" government. All it took for Yeltsin to win the election was several weeks of heavy pounding with negative TV ads and grossly biased campaign coverage. That was enough to persuade rookie voters to re-elect their leader, Yeltsin, who was so unpopular just a few months ago. Did they really have a choice? MICHAEL BUSHEL Pacifica, California
...advisers who did not speak the language, had no background in the country or Russian culture and did not meet with any of the key figures in the campaign (except for occasional contact with Yeltsin's daughter) would ultimately have much impact. GREGORY GUROFF, Senior Associate Center for Post-Soviet Studies Chevy Chase, Maryland...
...confirmed notions that terrorists were involved. One theory that arose the day after the crash: a surface-to-air missile had brought down the 747, perhaps a shoulder-launched Stinger missile, of the type smuggled by the U.S. into Afghanistan in the late 1980s to help rebels battle the Soviet-backed government. But while federal officials had not ruled out an attack by a surface-to-air missile, they privately viewed the possibility as remote...