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...global economic meltdown is flattening Russia. In the first week of February alone, some 72,000 jobs vanished, according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. Some government agencies predict that the number of unemployed may reach 2.8 million by the end of this year, up from 1.5 million at the end of 2008. The ruble has lost a third of its value since last September. Two weeks ago, Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach predicted a 2.2% contraction in the economy this year, the first official admission that Russia was facing a recession. (See pictures of Russia's rich aristocracy...
...guaranteeing basic human rights have become the most contentious. It is here that the Final Act has fallen significantly short of its goal, largely owing to noncompliance by the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. Exasperation over Western scrutiny of Soviet behavior was recently expressed by Yuri Zhukov, a columnist for the Soviet newspaper Pravda, who said that "it has been hammered into the minds of the people in the West for ten years" that the Final Act amounts merely to a declaration on human rights...
...took the Red Army just ten days to surround Berlin, Marshal Georgi Zhukov encircling it from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
...kingdom collapsed after 12 years in a war that remains the most atrocious, the most brutal and the deadliest in history. But which, by the same token, allowed several large figures to emerge. Their names have become legendary: Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Montgomery, Zhukov, Patton...
Such offers were bound to strike a chord in Belarus, a country suffering from 500% inflation, whose national currency, adorned with the image of a hare, is derisively referred to as the "bunny rabbit." Says Moscow economist Stanislav Zhukov: "The Belarussian economy is so unreformed, it has nowhere to go. It continues to produce goods that are so bad that even Russians don't want them...