heinous crimes of
legacy of
MG one of the staunchest opponents of the evils of
one of the first to speak out about the inhumanity of
rejecting
repressive machinery of
Russian social democracy perverted and compromised by
victims of repression
see also neo-Stalinism
Stampa, La (Italian newspaper)
see also Chiesa
standard of living see living standards
Stanford University
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties – 1991/1993)
see also New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
State Council
State Duma
Committees: Economic Policy
Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform
delays in trying to get it to pass anticorruption law
entrance barrier for parties to be admitted to
essential that there should be changes in organization of elections
initiatives from United Russia, exploiting its majority in
parties enabled to funnel ‘right people’ into
presidential ‘reshuffle’ and elections
pretext for dissolving
Putin’s participation in campaign
question of removing Yeltsin from office
rubber-stamping body
seats dished out or simply sold
Stalin extolled by chairman of
START-2 Treaty and
State Emergency Committee
Impeachment Commission supporters of
investigations into
political and economic amnesty to members
trial of members
see also coup (August 1991)
State Prosecutor’s Office
Stavropol
dust storms
medical equipment to hospitals in the region
MG sacks bribe-takers in the militia
Stavropol Agricultural Institute
Steele, Jonathan
Stepankov, Valentin
Stepashin, Sergey
Stockholm
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stone, Oliver
Stone, Sharon
Strasbourg
Strauss, Bob
Strong, Maurice
Strzhelchik, Vladislav
Sun Yat-sen
Supreme Soviet of Russia
approval of destruction of the Union
CNN cameras broadcasting live from blocks adjacent to
decree annulling the powers of
friction between Yeltsin’s team and
irreconcilable stand-off between president and
popular privatization plans by academics in
Presidium chairman of
privatization of state property within the competence of
resolutions of
right to issue statutory decrees
shelling of
tragedy brought about by leaders of
see also Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR
Surikov, Viktor
Surkov, Vladislav
Sverdlovsk
Sweden
Moscow Embassy
see also Palme; Stockholm
Swiss bank accounts
Switzerland
see also Davos; Geneva
Syr Darya river
Syria
Taffertshofer, Josef
Taganka Theatre
Tagliavini Commission (2009)
Taiwan
Tajikistan
TASS see ITAR-TASS
Taubman, Bill
tax avoidance schemes
tax evasion
large-scale
Tbilisi
Telen, Lyudmila
telephone justice
terrorism
anyone can become the victim of
condemnation of
conditions for it to flourish
criminal
essential to destroy a hotbed of
fight against
harsh measures necessary to combat
mass poverty facilitates the spread of
rampant
see also anti-terrorist coalition; extremism; fundamentalism; international terrorism; religious fanaticism
Thatcher, Denis
Thatcher, Margaret
Time Machine
Titov, Konstantin
Tkachenko, Alexander
Togliatti, Palmiro
Togliatti (city)
Tokyo
Tolstykh, Valentin
Tolubeyev, Andrey
totalitarianism
attempts to drag Russia back to
breaking free of
CP leaders yet to break umbilical link with
disappeared regimes
downfall of
eliminated
Khrushchev’s attack on
legacy of
methods nowhere proved efficient
not repudiated
personification of victory of democracy over
return to
Solzhenitsyn’s contribution to overcoming
transition to democracy
waging war on
Transcaucasia
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (1990)
Trial of the CPSU
controversy surrounding
provocative intentions of those who set up
Trifonova, N. A.
Trimble, David
Troyanovsky, Oleg
Tskhinvali
Tuđman, Franjo
Tuleyev, Aman
Tunisia
Turetsky Choir
Turin
Turkey
Turner, Ted
MG with (2009)
see also CNN; Nuclear Threat Initiative
Ufa
Ukraine
anti-Russian sentiment and behaviour encouraged in
crisis precipitated by association agreement with EU
letters to MG from
Orange Revolution (2004–5)
relationship between Russia and
relief supplies to
see also Crimea; Kiev; Kravchuk; Minsk Protocol; Yanukovych
Ulan-Ude
ultra-nationalism
attempts to drag Russia back to totalitarianism
Nastya Baburova’s killers sentenced to long terms of imprisonment
Umalatova, Sazha
Umansky, Artur
UN (United Nations)
Charter of
Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen 2009)
Conference on Environment and Development see Earth Summit
Convention on the Elimination of Chemical Weapons
Environment Programme
General Assembly
Geneva Office
Millennium Summit (2000)
Secretaries-General see Annan; Ban; Boutros-Ghali; Sachs
Security Council
see also International Criminal Court; Kyoto Protocol; International Labour Organization; UNESCO; UNHCR; UNICEF
Understanding Perestroika (MG)
unemployment
mass
UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund)
Union Could Have Been Saved, The (white paper)
Union of Right Forces
Union of Social Democrats
Union of Sovereign States
United Kingdom
Chequers
MG in Parliament (1984)
see also Aberdeen; Braithwaite; Churchill; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Heath; Hurd; London; Major; Owen; Steele; Thatcher
United Russia Party
exploiting its majority in Duma
shadow/mediocre imitation of CPSU
shameless behaviour by
United Social Democratic Party of Russia
inaugural congress (2001)
joint theory and practice conference (201)
United States
chemical weapons
financial and economic crisis
foreign policy
invitations for MG to speak in
mass protest movements
military spending and budget deficits
mistake that would have immense negative consequences for
obesity sufferers
Putin’s overtures towards
relations with Russia
role in the world