Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handled, this incident will do little to improve Turkish-Russian ties. It appears possible that this may be a prelude to a general conflagration in the Caucasus in reaction to Moscow's brutality. Russia looks with annoyance at Turkey's current play for the ethnically Turkic former Soviet Republics in Central Asian. Moscow makes no bones about its anger about Turkey's wooing of these countries, which it interprets as vying with Russia for influence in the region...
...Until very recently I never taught a course on the Soviet period because we didn't have access to the archives," he says...
Lugar said his other foreign policy priorities include continuing President Clinton's military strategy in Bosnia and controlling the spread of nuclear arms from the states that formerly comprised the Soviet Union...
...Rabin's funeral, is seen by the local commentators as sending a clear message to Assad to join in the increasing warming of Israel's relationships with its Arab neighbors," Dean Fischer reports from Jerusalem. The Syrian president may want in. With the demise of its former patron the Soviet Union, and Israel's ongoing rapprochement with neighboring Arab states, Syria finds itself increasingly isolated, and normalizing relations could prove a tremendous boost for the economy. As for the Israelis, Fischer notes, "A majority of Israelis think that, with the proper guarantees, the deal can benefit Israel. The Golan would...
...Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, as the country's new foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist agenda on the map, Yeltsin has made a real effort to look like a Russian patriot...