Word: vladivostok
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...recent takeover of Moscow's privately-owned NTV television network, the closure of the daily Segodnya and the mass firing at the weekly Itogi were only three battles in the Kremlin's new war on independent news outlets. Less conspicuously, regional power brokers from Pskov in the west to Vladivostok in the east are taking a cue from Moscow and cracking down on local TV, radio and newspapers in what is becoming a nationwide crisis for freedom of information in Russia...
...Russians who vote this week in the port city of Vladivostok--where more than 20 local elections have been invalidated recently, many of them on account of turnout less than the legal minimum--will receive lottery tickets for cars, TVs, VCRs, refrigerators, washing machines and baskets of food...
Good foundations for foreign investments are hard to come by in Russia these days, at least according to recent headlines that lend new meaning to the term hostile takeover. From Vyborg to Vladivostok, court fights over shareholders' rights have even led to bloody clashes between riot troops and local workers. "If you want to empty a boardroom on Wall Street," quips an American investment banker in Moscow, "just say the word Russia." For too many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly...
...past four years. Despite the understandable fears for the future, some of Russia's reforms have become so embedded that dislodging them would be difficult. As Zyuganov himself has said, "We understand that if we start taking factories back, there's going to be shooting from Murmansk to Vladivostok...
...Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back to her bed by a kgb agent. How Brezhnev collapsed with seizures just before and after his 1975 summit in Vladivostok with Gerald Ford-and, while summiting with Jimmy Carter in Vienna in 1980, was so out of touch that his interpreters ad-libbed his drooling replies. How Ronald Reagan, when told Dobrynin was returning to Moscow in 1986 to become a Communist Party executive, asked in amazement, "Is he a communist...