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Moscow is gearing up for the upcoming national elections, Soviet style. Under a new law, ostensibly to ease traffic problems, rallies in the capital are banned in front of historical monuments, ruling out much of the city center. Demonstrators also have to maintain a density of two protesters per square yard. And at indoor events, there must be a seat for every attendee. "The law is ridiculous," says Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of a liberal opposition party in the Moscow duma. "If you have five full chairs and someone arrives late, you are not allowed to let them...
...transcend a beloved alcoholic father. But years of performing and public speaking molded it into a persona that helped win landslides and kept his enemies off balance. Reagan could go to Berlin and tell Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" just months after negotiating earnestly with the Soviet leader at Reykjavík, all the while withholding concessions on the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the very thing Gorbachev most wanted...
Educated in Kiev, Moscow, and his hometown of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Plokhii began his academic career as a historian working under the Soviet regime...
Plokhii left the Soviet Union to teach full-time in Alberta in 1991, just after witnessing the attempted August Coup in Moscow against then-premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an event that marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...system of government by unelected bureaucrats. Endemic corruption is beyond repair. Is that the price of easier travel and cleaner beaches? Free trade and freely negotiated agreements among sovereign nations - that's what we need. Not this lumbering, inefficient dinosaur that has too much in common with the former Soviet Union. The Europeans are neighbors of us Brits. They should be our friends. They cannot be our masters. Many Europeans want us to leave the door open when we exit - as we surely will. Ashley Mote, Member of European Parliament, BRUSSELS...