Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...catering company runs the soup kitchen as a community effort said Hourhian. Neighboring restaurants and local foundations donate food and supplies for the meals. She said that Food for Free, an organization that picks up food from vendors willing to donate, is an especially helpful sponsor...
Unity was enforced and nationalist ambitions suppressed over the decades with ruthless coercion by the KGB, supplemented by privileges for the local party leaders who carried out Moscow's directives. Under Gorbachev, the use of force inside the Soviet Union was discouraged, and the party's hidebound patronage system came under direct attack. By denouncing the government's "command-administrati ve" methods, Gorbachev hoped to invigorate the system and increase its efficiency...
Gorbachev's missile, however, also hit the colonial administration that maintained the Soviet empire. Glasnost naturally entails talking about past injustices and that has led to a new emphasis on ethnic grievances. Local party leaders, feeling the heat from Moscow, discovered that they could keep a grip on their jobs only by throwing in their lot with the nationalist forces in their regions -- actually representing their constituents' interests in dealing with Moscow. In most republics, it has now become good politics for Communist officials to shake a fist at the Kremlin...
...Samarkand last summer gangs of young Tadzhik thugs roamed the local marketplace, slashing the faces of women who wore makeup...
...past 15 months Katerli has been in court fighting charges that she defamed local Patriot society leader Alexander Romanenko by comparing passages in his book The Class Character of Zionism with Nazi writings. In her view, the official propaganda campaign against "Zionist racism" has been a form of sanctioned anti-Semitism. Now that glasnost is flourishing, she is worried about more virulent forms of prejudice as Russian nationalists seek a scapegoat to blame for seven decades of Communist misrule...