Word: turkmenistan
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...republics to deal with. The acronyms are hardly euphonious or politic. Turgutmakbak, for example, simply turns the new confederation into gobbledygook. Using syllables from some of the republics would be just as untenable. For example, the Belokazakirghuzbek Russukra Union (B.R.U.) would leave out the easily offended states of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. And what would the country's inhabitants be called? Bruskis...
Mikhail Gorbachev's crackdown in the Baltics has not stopped two other republics from defying the Soviet military. A U.S. analyst monitoring the U.S.S.R. says there is virtually an open border between Iran and the Central Asian state of TURKMENISTAN and parts of AZERBAIJAN. Bowing to popular pressure, border guards have deserted their posts, allowing a free flow of goods and people in both directions...
...while Gorbachev's proposal was approved by 76% of the people who voted, that is only 61% of those who could have done so. There is also the question of the almost Brezhnev-level statistics from the Central Asian Republics -- all of them above 90% approval, with Turkmenistan hitting 98% -- which hint at possible vote fraud. There have been accusations of ballot tampering in some republics...
...TURKMENISTAN...
...Samarkand, site of the tomb of the medieval chieftain Timur the Great (the Tamburlaine of Christopher Marlowe's epic play), and pillaged it for four days. It was from these little noticed conquests that there emerged the until recently little noticed Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. "The policy of Russia is changeless," said one disapproving observer, Karl Marx. "Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy -- world domination -- is a fixed star...