Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AILING. RAISA GORBACHEV, 67, former First Lady of the Soviet Union; with leukemia; in Munster, Germany, where she is receiving chemotherapy...
...people could assemble without the normally vigilant security services' finding out. Some Westerners were comparing it to the flight of German Mathias Rust, who landed his small plane in Red Square in 1987, an audacious act that showed up the limits of what was supposed to be a formidable Soviet air-defense system. The Falun Gong gatherings were more than a worry for China's security services; they were also an embarrassment. The police discovered that the protest was planned in large part by e-mail and that Falun Gong had a "virtual" organization, which it claimed linked 39 provincial...
Still, Wolff continued to ask colleagues who traveled to the former Soviet Union to inquire about the manuscripts. And earlier this year, a tip came in from another Harvard researcher that the documents may have been found...
...real Ms. Marple sort of thing," said Patricia K. Grimsted, research associate of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. "I found a German-translated report from the Ministry of Culture in Moscow on cultural holdings throughout the Soviet Union...
...Kampelman, lawyer, diplomat and negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. "In those roles, he emphasized human rights in East-West diplomacy and prepared the foundation for long-term arms reductions between the United States and the Soviet Union," the tribute said...