Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Fidel, 67, remains Cuba's ideologue of yesteryear, Raul, 63, has emerged as today's pragmatist. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 cost Havana its main trading partner, Fidel has only grudgingly opened the door to dollar-toting tourists and foreign investors, begun shrinking the army and bureaucracy, and allowed Cubans a taste of private enterprise. But monthly rations barely provide enough food for two weeks. The Cuban army, in touch with grass-roots sentiment through its conscripts and ties with local militias, started telling Raul of widespread grumbling among the hungry populace...
...knowing how closely you watch events in the world you left behind, I want to bring you up to date on the consequences of an ideal you so energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have led to bloody battles, and the U.S. is apt to be involved. Your present successor in the White House has pledged...
...forcing the U.S. Federal Reserve to prop it up with two days and $2 billion of aggressive buying. Yet even as it is unloaded by speculators, the dollar has become so common across the vast old communist territories that an estimated 50% of the populace in the former Soviet Union, for instance, keeps most of its meager savings in U.S. currency...
...part of the continuing fallout from the Oct. 11 crash of the ruble, Russian President Boris Yeltsin shuffled his economic team, appointing as Finance Minister Vladimir Panskov, a Soviet-era budget specialist who had been briefly imprisoned on bribery charges that were later dropped. Alexander Shokhin, Economics Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, resigned, saying, "The economy is becoming a hostage to politics." Yeltsin then promoted reformer Anatoli Chubais to first Deputy Prime Minister, charged with overseeing the ministries of Economics and Finance...
...lunch with the Overseas Press Club later, Zhirinovsky added a kicker: an allegation that the1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster was an act of sabotage by certain KGB agents intent on destroying confidence in Soviet technology.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...