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...Soviet-trained engineer, his is the logical grand plan for a landlocked country blessed with mountains, rivers?and little else. "We don't want to be such a poor country anymore," Nam says. "We want to change." This week, the World Bank will take a step to turn that dream into a concrete reality. The Bank's executive board of directors will meet in Washington, D.C. on Thursday and is expected to endorse a controversial $1.25 billion hydroelectric dam that even developers admit will have major social and environmental impact. Yet the dam could earn the country $2 billion...
Askar Akayev's abrupt departure took everyone by surprise-especially the people trying to oust him. Indeed, the President of Kyrgyzstan fled last Thursday before his opponents could even decide what to call the latest revolution to rock a former Soviet republic-pink? Lemon? Tulip? "We were expecting at least a couple of days of picketing," says Alexander Kim, editor of the main opposition newspaper, MSN. "No one thought [the government] would collapse in half...
...disturbing sign for former Soviet states like Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where opposition calls for reforms have been repeatedly repressed. Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...being a traitor," she says, seated beneath portraits of her ancestors in the study of the 19th century mansion on the outskirts of Warsaw she and her huSBand have restored. "This kind of thing can destroy a person." "This kind of thing" has been happening across the former Soviet bloc as police archives, sealed since the end of communism, are gradually revealed to the public. The political fallout is intense. Politicians are seizing on the information to discredit foes. Some question the very authenticity of the files, but a growing number of people see the opening of the secret-police...
Maier agreed that Kennan had a tremendous impact on foreign policy, but added that while Kennan is often regarded as a warrior for democracy against Soviet totalitarianism he was somewhat uneasy with the democratic process...