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...founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin Brewery Group is a pioneer yet again. Having listed on the Hong...
...late Wednesday night the news was spreading fast: another aging autocrat was on his way out in a former Soviet satellite. Late last year it was Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia. This time, it was Aslan Abashidze, for the past 13 years the authoritarian boss of Ajaria; an autonomous republic in Georgia's southwest corner. "It's over," said Givi Targamadze, chairman of Georgia's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security. "The only thing that remains to be seen is who will come from Moscow to take Mr. Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security...
...Batumi to a hero's welcome early Thursday morning, Saakashvili thanked the Ajarians for their "unprecedented heroism and dignity." In Tbilisi, Nino Burjanadze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, told Time that Georgia had "shown the whole world how important democratic principles are to us." Abashidze was "a classic Soviet-era apparatchik," says Robert Parsons, head of the Georgian service at Radio Liberty in Prague. He effectively stripped opposition parties and media of any influence; Abashidze himself would appear live on television for two to three hours every day to bring people up to date on his achievements. He believed that...
Oregon's outspoken Senator Wayne Morse met with a large delegation but bluntly told them: "I don't think the U.S. and the Soviet Union can reach an agreement on disarmament...
...human capital and rampant corruption—to improve their domestic security. Unable to uphold basic law and order throughout much of their territory, weak states can become safe havens for terrorists. Those with materials useful for making WMD—such as the nuclear stockpiles in the ex-Soviet states—often lack the resources to secure those materials (and to pay guards enough to keep them from supplementing their income by selling a little plutonium or anthrax on the side). Such “loose nukes” and other deadly materials are at risk of falling...