Word: sovietize
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...should hold on to their position. Otherwise we are going to have matriarchy." MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, ex-Soviet President, at the Women's World Awards, which honor women who further gender equality...
...which he called President George W. Bush the devil, made no contribution to peace [Oct. 2]. Chávez tried to transform an important forum of debate into a circus. Maybe he thought that he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, or maybe he was trying to mimic Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who banged the lectern with his shoe in the same forum. Both leaders were disrespectful to the delegates, U.N. officials and the U.N. as an institution that represents our ultimate hope for peace. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should take measures to avoid such occurrences in the future...
Anna was a great asset to Russia’s dwindling public sphere. Even her friends say she was not easy to bear, but harsh critics hardly are. Born in New York to Soviet diplomats from Ukraine, she decided to study in the motherland, graduating as a journalist from Moscow State University in 1980. Almost immediately, she focused on the disfranchised: the old, the poor, and refugees. She once declared she aimed at “reviving Russia’s pre-revolutionary tradition of writing about our social problems...
...meaning, no matter how many times you turn them over, just won't be pinned down. Whatever it was that happened in Hungary 50 years ago is one of them. Did the short-lived government of Imre Nagy, a Communist reformer, mark the moment when it became clear that Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe could not last? Did it give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, ex-Soviet President, at the Women's World Awards, which honor women who further gender equality...