Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide is not a sin. Russian authorities are worried that he may urge his followers on a final binge. In the former Soviet lands, law enforcement has handled cults in the old Russian way, with truncheons and bars. Some have been banned. Last year a court in Kiev gave prison terms to leaders of the White Brotherhood, including its would-be messiah, Marina Tsvigun...
...stride down endless hallways, past frosted-glass doors with signs denoting COLLECTION, AUDITING, INFORMATION--and one that reads OFFICE OF ACCURACY AND PERFECTION, ROOM 7513. But within the empire of the largest and most successful tax and enforcement agency in history, there is nothing resembling perfection. Like the old Soviet Union, grand and powerful on the outside but an antiquated shambles within, the IRS has profound problems with outdated technology and outmoded thinking that have undermined its self-described mission: "To collect the proper amount of tax revenue at the least cost...
...capering Roger Moore of the '60s TV show. Kilmer's Simon is a man unsure of his own identity and compelled to wear disguises as if he were shopping for a new soul. Similarly, Noyce eschews the campy look of Bond or Batman. The movie, about a post-Soviet plutocrat (Rade Serbedzija) who tries to mastermind a new Russian revolution, is dark--almost drab--and broody. It seems deeply riven between its impulse to entertain and its aspirations to update both Freud and Le Carre...
MOSCOW: Breaking up, the former Soviet Republic of Belarus has found, is hard to do. Which is why Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko will sign a "Union Treaty" to bring his country, if not all the way, than at least most of the way back into the Russian orbit. Russian President Boris Yeltsin approved an agreement Monday that will create a single citizenship for residents of both republics and unify their foreign and economic policies. Faced with a shattered economy that makes Russia's look robust, Lukashenko has pushed for integration with Russia, which in any case supplies Belarus with everything...
...important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation, satirical novelist Vladimir Voinovich laments that the party big shots and KGB bosses quickly betrayed the ideology they had imposed on hundreds of millions of people, while democrats, including Yeltsin, still walk, talk and "act like the old Soviet leaders...