Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three prominent specialists on Russia--Baird Professor of History Richard E. Pipes, Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy Marvin Kalb and Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center--said the triumph of an ultra-nationalist group in the elections has clouded the country's future...
...ultra-nationalist Liberal-Democratic Party, which opposes Yeltsin's economic and democratic reforms, won about 25 percent of the seats. The pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party finished second, with about 14 percent...
Communists also did well in the elections, finishing third with roughly 12 percent of the seats. Their strong showing raised the possibility that an alliance between ultra-nationalists and communists could dominate the Russian legislature...
...ground was shaking last Tuesday night on Jerusalem's Pierre Koenig Street as scores of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in long black coats and black hats stamped their feet, shouted "Messiah!" and sprayed champagne in the direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders of a different sort reverberated through the campaign headquarters of Teddy Kollek as television announcers declared that a "political earthquake" had ended a remarkable career in public service. It is difficult to imagine Jerusalem without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy...
...speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored by the mayor, the Likud candidate promised ultra-Orthodox Jews more power and money, and won handily with 59% of the vote...