Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of the bells and her recent experience as their ringer. The Lowell House bells were given to Harvard in 1930 by Richard T. Crane. They had hung in the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow, but when they were sentenced to the melting-pot, Crane purchased them from the Soviet government and shipped them to America. At that time, the construction of Lowell House was in its finishing stages and plans for a clocktower were altered to accommodate the carillon. When the bells finally arrived, an enigmatic man called Saradjeff arrived with them to oversee their installation and playing...
...worked for a Boston software company for a short time after defecting from the Soviet Union in 1981, but didn't enjoy...
...brothers for several years shared a bachelor pad in Coral Gables, Fla., but their first major business venture together was a $118 million plan to grow and export hazelnuts from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. This seemed attractive in light of a booming Western demand for hazelnut-flavored confections. Along with Stephen Graham, Tony's sometime partner and an occasional advanceman for Mrs. Clinton, the brothers flew to Georgia in August to look over the operation...
...Rodhams had tumbled into the byzantine world of post-Soviet politics. According to Tony, Abashidze never exploited his newfound connection to the White House. But Shevardnadze sympathizers say Abashidze, who enjoys support from Georgia's much feared neighbor Russia, seized on the visit of President Clinton's in-laws to suggest that he had a seal of approval from the U.S. government in upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. In fact, just after the Rodhams left, according to Georgian news reports, Abashidze trumpeted "the possibility of political support rendered to him by U.S. President Bill Clinton" and said the U.S. branch...
...undersecretary of state Strobe Talbott held five hours of talks with Sarkisian and President Robert Kocharian on the very day of the shootings, discussing the vexing question of Nagorno-Karabakh. The predominantly Armenian enclave inside neighboring Azerbaijan sparked a war between the two countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Talbott had been discussing a settlement to the unresolved conflict. Russia will be watching with interest because of the complex struggle for influence along the route of the pipeline pumping Caspian Sea oil to the West. Azerbaijan and Georgia's active support of the Chechens and preference...