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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to rescue his friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody of the duet from West Side Story, with Albright warbling, "The most beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Better Than Nothing | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...magician," says Primakov. "Don't judge this government by its first hundred days." But his first two appointments will frighten foreign investors and worry Western governments. They probably guarantee that the next bailout installment of $4.3 billion from the International Monetary Fund, due this month, will be held up. The U.S. opposes even considering another payment until it sees Primakov's plan to stabilize the Russian economy. "All previous programs are irrelevant," says a White House aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Better Than Nothing | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...alone cannot be the cause of their economic collapse. Yet these governments are being blamed, while the currency traders, foreign capitalists and hot-money stock-market raiders are being praised for their efforts to discipline these governments and force them to change their ways--i.e., adopt the ways of Western governments and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Call Me A Heretic If You Like | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...find portions with something this big and this extensive that one might have done differently. But I think it's fair and accurately reflects current cold-war scholarship." A recent finding from Soviet archives, for example, is that the Soviet leaders held their ideological views far more strongly than Western analysts had thought. The result was that the Soviets often acted against their best interests, mystifying those in the West, who believed the Soviets had a rational and cunning master plan. Comments in the series by former Soviet officials illustrate this new thesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Cold War From Twilight To Dawn | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

This is Russia's historical mistake, and it goes back to Peter the Great. He admired Western factories and ships, but he never saw the spiritual and cultural forces behind them. This mistake has shaped Russia's destiny down to this time. Both sausage and freedom were imported into Russia rather than attained indigenously. That is why we have neither sausage nor freedom now. A citizenry that failed to cope with freedom is not yet a civil society. As the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov put it, A talking creature is not necessarily a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Russian's Lament | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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