Word: ultranationalists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...claiming this peace agreement is more favorable than the Rambouillet plan, since it gives Serbia uncontested sovereignty over Kosovo. But with no troops there to enforce it, his legal ownership is a sham. And he was forced to swallow the humiliation of admitting foreign soldiers onto Yugoslav soil. The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party voted against a deal it denounced as a total sellout. Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, idol of the hard-liners, could quit the government. Ultimately, Milosevic will have to deal with the dawning realization among his suffering citizenry that after he let Serbia...
Russian funny man and ultranationalist parliamentarian VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY took time out of his legislative duties last week to celebrate the release of his first compact disc, a collection of pop tunes titled The Real Colonel. Zhirinovsky, once considered a leading contender for the presidency, held the celebration at Dolls, one of Moscow's more distinguished strip clubs. The head of the Liberal Democratic Party thrilled the audience when he took the stage and, surrounded by dancers, alternately recited song lyrics and denounced NATO. But the Russian citizenry is never far from his mind. "[Zhirinovsky] is above all a politician," said...
...though the blitzkrieg Milosevic launched didn't quite accomplish that, it has already remade the face of Kosovo. Some 40,000 regular Serb troops, special police, paramilitary units and ultranationalist gangs tore through Kosovo "with complete ferocity," says a NATO official. "The intensity was not anticipated." And now NATO is scrambling to revise its war plan in a race against time. "He's working very, very fast," said NATO commanding General Wesley Clark, "trying to present the world with a fait accompli...
...freedom." Next stop for the defense secretary is Russia, where he hopes to convince Yeltsin of the need for military backup -- and find out what all that talk of World War III was about. Russia?s own bad-boy superstar touches down in Baghdad Wednesday -- none other than ultranationalist parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky, with a planeload of humanitarian goods in tow. So much for the tour guide. Whether any of these road trips actually amount to anything is a matter only the band managers -- in Washington and Baghdad -- can decide...
...work very little since winning re-election last July. Yeltsin has been convalescing in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital for a week now, and his doctors now say he will remain hospitalized at least through the end of this week. In his absence, Communist Deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, backed by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has spearheaded a movement in the Russian Parliament to impeach Yeltsin due to ill health. It's a somewhat empty gesture, since under complex constitutional rules that Yeltsin rammed through in 1993, the Duma is not likely to impeach, and Yeltsin can dissolve the body at any time...