Word: zakonnost
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...political debate remains impichment, impeachment, an imported term that Russians were using to mean "vote Yeltsin out." That is a mistranslation of the long legal process by which the U.S. can dismiss a President, but Russian parliamentarians are also vague about the concepts of demokratiya, konstitutsiya and zakonnost (legality). Despite much ostentatious talk of legality, post-Soviet Russia is still a place where the law and its institutions are in flux...
...have such power, but he was always reluctant -- sometimes too reluctant -- to use it. When the conspirators asked Gorbachev to join the plot, he refused and honored his vow as the first President of the Soviet Union to "defend the constitution." He speaks often now about the importance of zakonnost -- legality -- in the aftermath of the coup. Such admonitions are of crucial importance if a law-governed state is to emerge on the territory of the shattered Union -- and Gorbachev still has the authority to utter them...
...undemocratic as the old system. And Yeltsin's boorish bossing of Gorbachev in the Russian parliament carried hints of an autocratic style that may do the country more harm than good in the long run. The impassioned Yeltsin may need to be reminded at times about the importance of zakonnost (legality) in his haste to bring about rapid change...
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