Word: tricolor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disillusioned demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into a dead end. For Russians it has been seven more years on a road that...
...partied all night on the Champs-Elysées. Even in far-flung London, ex-pats danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square till dawn. France's surprise 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup final Sunday has prompted what one Parisian daily, France-Soir, called a "tricolor orgasm" -- one that looks set to blend seamlessly into Tuesday's Bastille Day celebrations. Writing in Le Parisien, one journalist even suggested that July 12 now become an official holiday, equal to July 14; a move, he said, that would "unite the two faces of the French revolution...
...five years since the tricolor flag of Russia replaced the hammer and sickle flying over the Kremlin, Moscow has made a number of difficult, courageous and correct choices, both from its own standpoint and from ours. Democracy is taking root. The rudiments of a market economy and a financial infrastructure are now in place. The ruble is stable; inflation is under control; the private sector produces 70% of the gross domestic product...
...power rhetoric, and he has signed a treaty with Belarus that permits people to believe he favors re-creating the old Soviet empire (a Communist priority). Suddenly too the old World War II Red Army "victory banner" has been ordered flown alongside Russia's new white-blue-and-red tricolor on occasions commemorating that...
...bright, tricolor billboards all across Moscow, Chernomyrdin earnestly appeals to voters to cast their ballots for Our Home Is Russia, the political movement he founded last April in a bid to create a strong centrist party loyal to the Kremlin. IF YOUR HOME IS DEAR TO YOU, the slogan reads...