Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The "technology" worked. While the Unity Party ended up neck and neck with the communists, Fatherland-All Russia came in a disappointing third. It was an expression of what Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev described as Russia's split soul: torn between the attraction of anarchy on the one hand and...
They found him in 47-year-old Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: his youth, his sportsman's bearing, his precisely phrased and brutally delivered statements--all so different from the doddering Yeltsin and his mangled, half-incomprehensible public utterances. In the past few months, as Russian troops have streamed into Chechnya...
Unity's leaders, almost invisible during the campaign, were silent after it. It is a peculiar party. Unity has virtually no platform, almost no organization (especially in contrast to the nation's Communist Party) and only a handful of visible leaders. What it does have is the backing of the...
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Unity's creators--a small group of people in and around the "Family," as Yeltsin's aides and hangers-on are known--wanted a reassuringly predictable election. "Were you surprised by the results?" a reporter from the daily Kommersant asked Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter and aide and one of...