The organization facilitates Potemkin-village vacations for American citizens wishing to travel to Venezuela .
Unfortunately, matters have reached the point where such calculated exercises in Potemkin political rehabilitation will not suffice.
Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover and, for more than 20 years, the power behind the Russian throne.
Initially, Lawson appears to have hoped to use a Potemkin "offshore" trustee the Russian- owned Moscow Narodny Bank in London.
Build a few Potemkin village medical facilities to fool the gullible into believing some noble purpose or higher achievement motivates the endeavor.
Some residents say there's a Potemkin's Village-type quality to the repairs.
With the monarch's approval, Potemkin colonised Crimea, did battle with the Ottoman empire and dreamed up an ambitious plan for reinstating a Christian emperor in Constantinople.
The third story is a deflationary one, and says that the economic recovery is something of a Potemkin village, kept intact only by dint of central-bank and fiscal stimulus.
In contrast to some of the "Potemkin" i.e.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Potemkin�� Economic Sanctions, Take II
In contrast to some of the "Potemkin" -- i.e.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "Potemkin" Economic Sanctions, Take II
The Center for Security Policy believes that the Bush Administration and its counterparts in Western capitals must exercise great care in distinguishing real systemic change from Moscow center's potemkin reform machinations .
As the first reports of Soviet economic warfare against Lithuania begin to reach the West, the Center for Security Policy called upon the Bush Administration to adopt meaningful not Potemkin economic retaliatory measures against Moscow.
As the first reports of Soviet economic warfare against Lithuania begin to reach the West, the Center for Security Policy called upon the Bush Administration to adopt meaningful -- not Potemkin -- economic retaliatory measures against Moscow.
If the Congress and the Bush administration genuinely wish to protect the taxpayer and encourage structural reform in the Soviet Union, real not Potemkin conditions should be attached to any extension of additional U.S. agricultural export credits.
Maybe instead of holding political Potemkin town halls in swing states about the dangers that sequestration poses for the Pentagon, we should ask congressional leaders to take lessons from the Pentagon on how to work together to prevent it from happening.
Mr Lieven's impressively broad sweep is well complemented by a more tightly focused study of Russian imperialism at work: an excellent, meticulously researched biography of Prince Gregory Potemkin, who in the late 18th century was the most powerful man in Russia.
And with five billion people set to join us online in the coming decades perhaps someday even the Pyongyang traffic police and the students in the Potemkin computer lab we visited in North Korea among them the digital future can be bright indeed, despite its dark side.
WSJ: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen: The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution
In one of the most celebrated cases of borrowing in recent years, the famous scene in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, when a baby carriage bumps its way down a staircase - itself a nod to Eisenstein's Battle-ship Potemkin - was reproduced in its entirety in N.
At the very least, it is incumbent upon him to explore the possibility that Gorbachev was a party to a 'Potemkin coup, ' if only as a means of calibrating the wisdom of lending further support to a man viewed with real and understandable suspicion by so many bona fide democrats in the USSR.
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