Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Have you made any progress in persuading your Western partners not to lecture...
...counteroffensives and provocations. There is the mirror situation in Russia, where ((one television network)) has systematically reported on the hardships suffered by Serbs because of the sanctions, never referring to why the sanctions were imposed. The truth of the matter is that there are no angels. As far as Western public opinion is concerned, Russia is seen as protecting those who are bloody butchers. When I deliver mild criticism of the Serbs here, I am seen as a betrayer of our Slavic brotherhood...
...Western eyes, the incendiary rhetoric and exuberant loutishness of this barnstorming Bonaparte have marked him as something of a buffoon. But to many Russians, Zhirinovsky offers a kind of touchstone for their deepest yearnings and frustrations. Less than three years after throwing off the communist yoke, Russia is ensnared in a financial, political and spiritual crisis as great as any in its thousand-year history. The economy is tottering like a besotted barfly. Crime and corruption are rampant, and citizens who once took pride in their nation's world-class stature now find themselves shoved to the margins...
Later that day, Zhirinovsky made a token visit to a factory, walking through a deserted mill with endless rows of silent weaving machines. As a German television crew watched, he delivered one of his patented anti-Western tirades. "This factory stands idle because of Western interference in our affairs!" he shouted, shaking his finger directly at the German camera. "You have worked to ruin this country...
...past 24 hours have included some of the deadliest natural disasters in the nation's recent history. In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, wind whipped up one of dozens of forest fires now ravaging Western states, trapping 52 fire fighters and killing 13. One fire fighter was still missing this afternoon. At least 17 people have been killed by floods that continued to swamp towns in the Southeast. Rising waters in Georgia claimed all the known fatalities; divers were still searching for five people this evening. Damages there already amount to more than $60 million, and watersare expected to crest Saturday...