Echoes of Russia's Communist past?
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Experts charge that the Kremlin-backed United Russia party is transforming into a monolithic state force.
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Russia is joining the ranks of nascent dictatorships, and Vladimir Putin is the executioner of Russian democracy. Right? Wrong. Russia is not a dictatorship, and the political system Putin is trying to reshape is not a democracy.
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If you can judge a book by its cover, then the "History of Russia and the World in the 20th Century" tells students the Soviet past was all pride and glory &#151; three of four cover photos invoke Soviet propaganda images.
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Creating false appearances to cloak an undesirable reality is a fine tradition of Russian governance. The Russians invented the original Potemkin villages, elaborate fake settlements constructed by a Russian
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NEW YORK, Dec 8 (IPS) - The popular image of Russia in the West today is of   a land of post-Soviet oligarchs, oil company billionaires  languishing in  jail, President Vladimir Putin ruthlessly  centralising his power by  replacing provincial governors, civil  liberties being abused, and, of  course, the 10-year war in  Chechnya with the resulting unthinkable murder  of hundreds of  children in Beslan.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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MOSCOW -- There are many ways history may judge last month's presidential elections in Ukraine, but in Russia these days the reverberations are most often described with a single word that sounds the same in Russian as in English: &quot;fiasco.&quot;
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Ready for a trip down memory lane, comrade? Insert your "commie quarter" and have a blast.
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The BBC's James Rodgers finds the Moscow metro a mixture of Soviet-era grandeur and free market wheeler-dealing.
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WARSAW -- The new scandal mesmerizing Poland seems lifted from a Cold War dossier: Spies, oil traders, a polo player, and a billionaire are tangled in a rumored plot by Moscow to manipulate its smaller neighbor.
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KIEV -- The roots of Ukraine's political crisis lie in a centuries-old divide between the country's east and west, a split between two cultures, two languages, and two histories within the same nation.
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The current political events in Ukraine highlight not only the ineptitude of previous geopolitical decisions in the region, going back to World War I, and indeed even prior to that, but also the importance of ...
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DAVID HARDAKER: In Soviet times, it was a long-held tradition to immortalise leaders by renaming streets and major cities after them.
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SHCHUCHYE, Russia - Out of the flatlands and swamps about 100 miles from Russia's southern border, a huge gray box of concrete, brick, pipes, and wires is rising, a factory that next year may begin to neutralize one of the most threatening legacies of the Cold War.
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Belarusians' decision whether to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum this weekend could determine if this East European nation will remain an isolated Soviet-style throwback or slowly turn toward the ...
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Moldova, that's where. Formerly part of the Soviet bloc, the small country is shoehorned between Ukraine and Romania.
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When one considers the United States&#39; cold war preoccupation with containing or destroying socialism over the past 50 years, and Washington&#39;s exemplary record at destabilizing communism world-wide, it is a mystery that some cannot for a moment imagine