Word: russianizing
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...identification have quieted down. But the spirit may live on in Quincy House, which stayed out of last year’s House warfare, but boasts a mysterious red door next to the building manager’s office with the inscription “Toilet” in Russian. Building manager Ronnie Levesque says the door is not a statement of the political leanings of the “People’s House.” The locked bathroom used to be labeled in English, he says, but in an attempt to dissuade people from asking...
Harvard and Shleifer have been the subject of investigation and prosecution on-and-off for seven years, ever since a federal agency discovered allegedly illegal investments Shleifer and a close Harvard associate made in the Russian economy...
...investments were made while Shleifer, who is the Jones professor of economics at Harvard, was advising the Russian government on market reform in the early 1990s...
...rerun of the second round may also produce nothing. What happens then? Will there have to be a third, a fourth, a 25th round until one of the sides obtains the necessary result?" VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, opposing a decision by the Ukrainian Supreme Court to hold a new runoff election between the two candidates for Ukraine's President, following allegations of fraud during the first balloting...
...issue is whether Shleifer—the lead adviser for Harvard’s project to rebuild the Russian economy in the 1990s—was technically “assigned to” Russia, as defined by the University’s contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID...