Such harassment is the everyday stuff of journalism in what Vladimir Putin calls the post Soviet space. Armenia may have adopted in 1995 a new Constitution with fine phrases about freedom of speech, but both the petty harassments and the mortal threats of the Soviet era remain.

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Moreover, Putin s project to safeguard great Russian statehood from the disarray of the post Soviet era has seen the imprisoning of dishonest oligarchs the prosecution of an irresponsible press and the establishment of his personal dictatorship over the rule of law.

They submit that such requirements discriminate against those religions which had no opportunity to be active during the Soviet era.

The secession of Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan during the Soviet era was legal, peaceful and just and carried out through referendum.

In this new post cold war era, internal conflicts are replacing inter State confrontations in international affairs.

Indeed, he even gets to write his own history. For although Gagik Tsarukyan was convicted of a sexual crime in the Soviet era, two years ago Armenia s courts exonerated him by vacating the decision of the Soviet court.

Most striking is Turkey s renewal of relations with Russia without damaging its ties to the newly independent post Soviet states. Turkey s ancient antagonism toward Russia briefly revived when the Soviet Union imploded.

Everything at which Georgians excelled under Shevardnadze in the Soviet era entrepreneurship, education, and culture was greatly neglected by him in the 1990s. Similarly, whereas tens of thousands of functionaries were indicted for corruption or lost their jobs under his leadership in the 1970s, the post Soviet Shevardnadze of the 1990s reportedly joked that he should have arrested himself, but that he deserved his wealth for his priceless political contribution.

The post crisis era is over, and the post post crisis world is upon us. It is time to adopt a new framework of realistic solutions that promote shared prosperity within the global economy of today and tomorrow.

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Like former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, the only other KGB man to rule Russia, Putin will become the party s general secretary. As in the Soviet era, state and governmental officials will be reduced to party ciphers the role that President Medvedev will play under General Secretary Putin.

The Europe of the past began with the Schuman Plan, which sowed the seeds of today s EU, and concluded when the Cold War ended. It was an era of integration based on the heroic drive to reconcile post war Germany and France and establish a Pax Europea , as well as the threatened expansion of the Soviet Union.

Yes, Russia is emerging from its humiliation following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.

NEW YORK August 8, 2008, may someday be remembered as the first day of the post American era. Or it could be remembered as another Sputnik moment, when, as with the Soviet foray into outer space in 1957, the American people realized that the country had lost its footing and decided it was time for the United States to get its act together.

NEW YORK August 8, 2008, may someday be remembered as the first day of the post American era. Or it could be remembered as another Sputnik moment, when, as with the Soviet foray into outer space in 1957, the American people realized that the country had lost its footing and decided it was time for the United States to get its act together.

Putin still doesn t understand that a centralized political system is as incapable of comprehending and correcting mistakes now as it was in the Soviet era. Not being a well educated man Putin is, in full and deep sincerity, leading Russia toward the same disintegration that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet state.

Now, in the post Arafat era, Palestinians must choose one of several strategies. Unfortunately, most of the alternatives call for the continued use of violence and terrorism.

To fulfil its critical role of building a peaceful, prosperous, and inclusive world for all citizens, the United Nations must undergo significant reforms to better meet the greater challenges of the post Cold War era and the world post September 11.

Because the world associates these traits with the Soviet era, many people mistake their reappearance as a sign that Russian power is now approaching that of the USSR. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago. Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia s external influence in this region remains enormous.

The current era is the atomic era.

We cannot underestimate the bilateral agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation on the utilization of the post Soviet nuclear stockpiles a legacy of the past.

I believe that the attempt by President Putin s Kremlin to impose liberal empire or sovereign democracy on the post Soviet states will fail. Of course, Russia is bound to exercise strong influence in the former Soviet territories, but it will have to share that influence with others.

Propaganda driven nostalgia for the Soviet Union s Cold War era great power status is obscuring the lessons of that time. The Soviet Union was an unsustainable empire if it could not survive at a time when isolation and bipolarity were the order of the day, it certainly could not be recreated within today s interconnected multipolar global system.

In the first decade of the post Cold War era, the US trained much of its attention on Europe. American policymakers focused primarily on enlarging NATO to encompass many of the former Warsaw Pact countries, and on contending with the post Yugoslav wars.

The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.

The club restaurant Major Pronin is conveniently located in the vicinity of the KGB FSB headquarters. It is named after the hero of bad Soviet era spy novels, a figure who was also the butt of many underground jokes.

Latin America will need a great deal of fresh thinking and many policy innovations if it is to keep growing in a post commodity boom era. No policy is failure proof.

One imagines that Zweig would have been comforted by the post WWII creation of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods system, not to mention the subsequent decades of reconstruction and reconciliation. He could have witnessed the cooperation and progress that marked the post war era.

Cuba also offers an opportunity to expand the reach of Western liberal values. By maintaining Cold War era financial subsidies to Cuba, Russia has tried to ensure that the island remained a geopolitical flashpoint, as it was for the Soviet Union.

We have hated this but, this coordinating conjunction, ever since the dawn of the Soviet era. Then we were told that freedom is good, but that one can t live in an individualist society without common concern for the communist state.

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A major shortcoming in today s world is the persistence of a zero sum sense of geopolitics. The world expected something different in the post Cold War era to promote peace and stability.

We must move from an era of legislation to an era of implementation.

Under the banner of a Eurasian Union, and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland. At the center of this policy is Ukraine, the linchpin of Europe s post Soviet order.

Tereshkova s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood. Much older than the Soviet regime, this tradition emphasizes a spirit of sacrifice not just for loved ones, but also for great causes such as revolution, state, science, or art that is deeply hostile to accumulation of money and material goods as the goal of life.

CHISINAU Today, color revolutions, which a few years ago were seen as promising developments in the post Soviet space, seem to be out of fashion. Around the world, disappointment with democracy promotion is widespread.

Indeed, Putin s signature characteristic is to be all men for all Russia s people. By blending the Soviet past with the Tsarist past and a few shards of Yeltsin era democracy, Putin seems to think that he can neutralize the extremes of Russian history.

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One such test probably the most fundamental one is whether the reform envisaged in the report does more than adapt the United Nations to the challenges and opportunities of the post cold war era.

And I think we have to go back to what happened in the post War era, post World War II, when the nuclear scientists who'd been involved in making the atomic bomb, in many cases were concerned that they should do all they could to alert the world to the dangers.

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Noting that trends in the post cold war era have emphasized the function of the Regional Centre in assisting Member States as they deal with new security concerns and disarmament issues emerging in the region,