"And it looks like it is only going to get worse with no strong imposition of security or authority even after the election."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

In July 1989, Mr.Gorbachev formally renounced the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy which had justified the Soviet imposition of communist party rule in the East European satellite states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03