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	Potemkin village - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But the tale of elaborate, fake settlements, the glowing fires of which were designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fiction.
		The meaning of "Potemkin Court" seems distinct from kangaroo court in that the court's reason to exist is being called into question, not its standard of justice.
		Potemkin Parliament as a description of the European Parliament (from the New Statesman, Sept 20 2004)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potemkin_village (832 words)

	Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin (Potemkin) (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин) (September 13, 1739 (NS: September 24)–October 5, 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favourite of Catherine II the Great.
		He is primarily remembered for his efforts to colonize the sparsely populated wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, which passed to Russia under the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774).
		The biographical anecdotes relating to him during the next few years, such as his participation in the assassination of the deposed emperor, are obscure and mostly apocryphal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grigori_Aleksandrovich_Potemkin (922 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Potemkin's Empress
		Potemkin had built his legendary villages to be viewed from a distance as the Empress passed by in her carriage.
		She orders her driver to continue on to the next village where the entire scene is repeated.
		On her ride back to the palace she wonders whether this is what a village is really like and whether all villages are just as empty and artificial.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /2002/09/23potemkin.html (1515 words)

	A Moment in Time: Gregori Potemkin - II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Content: Girgori Potemkin was a young ambitious military officer when he took part in the palace coup that deposed Peter III, the estranged husband of Catherine the Great.
		She said of him, "He is one of the greatest, most bizarre, and most entertaining eccentrics of this iron age." Even after the end of their romantic liaison, Potemkin remained one of Catherine's most powerful, capable and influential advisors.
		Critics accused Potemkin of creating fake villages, shams, between which fake peasants were transported back and forth to impress the Empress.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2216 (385 words)

	The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The technological contrast could not have been more appropriate or telling: despite the unprecedented changes taking place, notably in the economy, the former Soviet Union is, in many ways, merely a Potemkin Village superimposed on the economic decay that marked the Soviet state.
		It is fitting that the term "Potemkin village," meaning something that appears to be sound from cursory observation but is actually a mere disguise, has its roots in Imperial Russia.
		The man in charge of the development, Grigorii Potemkin, built bogus village frontages along the river to impress the group and conceal the lack of real progress.
	www.magma.ca /~franchuk/potemkin.html (1526 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did "Potemkin villages" really exist?
		He allegedly had these "Potemkin villages" done in order to give Catherine a false impression of peace and prosperity in regions that in actuality were in turmoil and great poverty.
		From the outset Potemkin planned to show off his accomplishments to Catherine and, equally importantly, to the European powers represented at her court.
		Russia being Russia, it was also deemed necessary to greet Catherine with an ostentatious display at every stop on her tour of inspection--a regiment of 200 beautiful sharpshooting amazons here, 20,000 rockets and 55,000 burning pots spelling out the initials of the empress there.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/031114.html (713 words)

	Potemkin podcast in the next elections : Today's Podcast By Scott Brenner.
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer and politician.
		Potemkin, who had recently conquered the area, wanted to impress Catherine II by demonstrating the value of the area he had captured by showing off a wonderful village.
		Today the term potemkin village or just potemkin is used to describe a staged, deceptive or hollow event.
	todayspodcast.com /archives/2005/08/the_next_electi_1.html (372 words)

	Archive \| July 1999 \| Glasnost-Perestroika Part I: A model Potemkin village
		Known as a Potemkin Village, these false buildings were a moveable, fake village, set up along Catherine's carriage or River route to give her a satisfying but false experience of her dominions.
		The construction of the aged Potemkin Village's modern counterpart began in earnest in 1986 under the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev.
		Such is the scam, the Potemkin Village, of Glasnost-Perestroika, and all that has followed on its heels.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0799glassp1.htm (1759 words)

	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		In 1787, when Catherine the Great visited Ukraine and Crimea, Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), a Russian army officer, statesman, and her lover, decided to put up elaborate cardboard houses apparently full of splendor in the villages Catherine was shown.
		A Potemkin village is, in other words, whitewash taken to the Nth degree.
		While Potemkin is the subject of many a legend, Potemkin village is his claim to fame.
	www.wordsmith.org /words/potemkin_village.html (238 words)

	Whiskey Bar: The Potemkin President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Of course, calling Bush the Potemkin president is actually a gross insult to the genuine article -- Prince Grigory Potemkin, the man who allegedly had fake villages constructed on the shores of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Czarina Catherine during an official inspection tour.
		The cult of Bush may have been discredited, the Potemkin Village of his presidency exposed as a giant hoax.
		The ultimate Potemkin Village, in other words, may be the archaic structures of the American republic.
	billmon.org /archives/002126.html (2278 words)

	Visit to a Potemkin village \| csmonitor.com
		What we are expecting is a reasonably genuine village: something a little dirty, slightly smoky, bags of onions strewn about - a place with a story line about an enlightened new official policy helping to overcome rural adversity.
		Undaunted, Nyima Tsering, the village chief, tells reporters that, "This is a place to see the daily life of Tibetan people." And he takes us to the nearby living room of Tsering Dorje.
		Some Potemkin villages with happy peasants were located near people who didn't have enough food.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0827/p07s01-wosc.html (861 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/Potemkin village
		Unless U.S. imperial overstretch is acknowledged and corrected, the United States may someday soon find that it has become a Potemkin village superpower -- with a facade of military strength concealing a core of economic weakness.
		The "evil empire" had been a mighty facade at least since Kruschev, a termite-infested Potemkin village congenitally incapable of regeneration.
		A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/06/17.html (175 words)

	Denmark: Potemkin Village - Mises Institute
		But this was all a show to cover disease, poverty, and misery that lay just behind the facade that had been erected for her benefit.
		This is the origin of the phrase Potemkin Village, a place where a politically generated appearance covers a less impressive underside.
		Europe is today filled with Potemkin Villages, none as successful as Denmark.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=905&FS=Denmark:PotemkinVillage (1356 words)

	IPcentral Weblog: FOSS* as a Potemkin Village (?)
		IPcentral Weblog: FOSS* as a Potemkin Village (?)
		The Public Patent Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center, both of which are enforcement arms of the Church of FOSS Militant, have made a rather nasty allegation that Microsoft filed for a patent on some ideas that were actually developed in discussions of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
		To my eyes, the FOSS movement looks like a Potemkin Village ("something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance").
	weblog.ipcentral.info /archives/2005/03/foss_as_a_potem.html (661 words)

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		Living pixels have taken the forme of the montagnes beyond, piling one on top of another in imitation of the geological processes that usually take endless time.
		Jacob never looks to closely at the paysage around him, so isn't aware that it has certain Potemkin Village air to it.
		Living pixels have taken the shape of the mountains beyond, piling one on top of another in imitation of the geological processes that usually take endless time.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /wax/french/4text/2/2a5a3a1.html (135 words)

	Diane Sawyer's Potemkin Village (The Colossus)
		And if Diane Sawyer thinks she is going to see or hear anything other than exactly what the North Korean government wants her to see and hear, she is sadly mistaken.
		This sort of intelligence operation is known as a Potemkin village -- and the concept has been with us from the time of the Tsars.
		You show a person something that purports to be everyday life, which is, instead, a facade of what you want them to think.
	www.colossusblog.com /mt/archives/2006/10/diane_sawyers_p.html (339 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: The Potemkin President
		Among her legacies, Russian Empress Catherine the Great brought the term "Potemkin Village" into the vernacular.
		It refers to the elaborate villages erected by Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to impress Catherine with her new Crimean conquests.
		Through his mastery of techniques that would have made Potemkin himself proud, Bush has been able to advance unpopular policies, derail popular programs of the opposition, deflect deserved blame and appropriate undue credit.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/000130.htm (1303 words)

	An Iraqi Potemkin Village- by Justin Raimondo
		As the BBC tells it, Talabani and his ally Massoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Democratic Party were in the midst of fighting Saddam's troops, when, all of a sudden:
		One night in the spring of 1991 when staying at his camp in a ruined school in Mawat — a mountain village north of Sulaymaniyah where he had taken refuge during earlier struggles with the rival KDP in the 1960s — he disappeared, and nobody would say where he had gone.
		Potemkin village could collapse before the Bush administration convinces itself that our "
	www.antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=5539 (1912 words)

	LewRockwell.com Blog: Bill "Potemkin Village" O'Reilly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Everything is on the up and up, he said on his own Fox War Channel show and on the Fox War and Friends morning show.
		He may be right, but the whole thing sounds like the "Potemkin Village" tours that Stalin's henchmen took naive American journalists on in the 1920s and 30s.
		They created small, perfect little villages that were spotless and where everyone was smiling, even the street sweepers.
	blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/010761.html (134 words)

	Greenwashing the Potemkin Village (printable version)
		As we have noted before, the Bush Administration's modus operandi on many pesky domestic issues is to build a rhetorical Potemkin Village of proposals that sound pretty good and that serve at least temporarily to neutralize political liabilities -- but that don't bear any serious examination.
		That's a formula for both economic growth and environmental stewardship, a genuine "third way" forward in the long-polarized debate over climate change that has pitted industry vs. environmentalists and stymied progress.
		It's time to knock down the Potemkin Village of the Administration's proposal and get on with the work of achieving an economically feasible answer to global climate change.
	www.dlc.org /print.cfm?contentid=251293 (1153 words)

	Srdja Trifkovic's NEWS & VIEWS UNFIT TO PRINT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The near-terminal Serb exodus of 1999, under NATO-led occupation and UN administration, was followed by almost four years of carefully administered Albanian violence against the remaining Serbs, and—especially—against those who dared come back.
		That violence was lethal enough to deter the Serbs from returning, and sufficiently low-lever to escape any serious condemnation from the “international community” whose representatives were only interested in building a “multiethnic” Potemkin’s village anyway, even with no Serbs left in it.
		By 2003 it looked as if the independence of Kosovo was a done deal, that the combined pressure of Albanian-paid advocates and their media cohorts would yield the ultimate dividend.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic04/NewsST050604.html (1561 words)

	The Raw Story \| Frank Rich: 'It takes a Potemkin village'
		Rich points out that even though the economy appears to be 'going relatively well,' as reflected in a drop in gas prices, Bush's approval rating in this area is still low, which might be because Americans can no longer believe what they can see anymore.
		When a government substitutes propaganda for governing, the Potemkin village is all.
		Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers' fictions to discern what's really happening.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/Frank_Rich_It_takes_Potemkin_Village_1210.html (296 words)

	liberal pen pal .:. Bush's PR Machine, Potemkin Village Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Well, as we should have known, each and every stop was a Potemkin Village aimed at rescuing the Flyover President.
		Teams of Firefighters have been streaming to New Orleans to help out - teams from the NYPD and FDNY were deployed on Monday (during the hurricane) and arrived later that week.
		This is the permanent home of Bush's PR Machine, Potemkin Village Version.
	www.liberalpenpal.com /2005/09/bushs_pr_machin.html (555 words)

	TheSoundRadio Artists
		www.potemkinvillage.ca Potemkin Village offers an eclectic sound with a broad appeal.
		PV’s music has been described as “loud, sometimes bitter folk”, drawing elements from many sources and displaying their diverse backgrounds.
		Diversity and honesty are key values for Potemkin Village and it shows.
	www.thesoundradio.com /artist/potemkinvillage (179 words)

	Stygius: The NREL as Potemkin village
		If they are expecting Coloradans to suspend their disbelief during the visit, the White House will sadly be mistaken.
		It's galling that NREL has become the administration's latest Potemkin village in its permanent public relations campaign.
		Stygius: The NREL as Potemkin village : As expected, this Tuesday President Bush is coming to Colorado to deliver the Good News about alternative energy and energy conservation at the National Renewa...
	stygius.typepad.com /stygius/2006/02/energy_politics.html (769 words)

	The Post Falls for Kim Jong Il's Potemkin Village in Pyongyang \| NewsBusters.org
		Performers, who numbered almost as many as the spectators, won furious applause for their coordinated displays of rhythmic gymnastics, flying acrobatics, traditional dancing and military taekwondo routines -- all synchronized to a massive video and laser light show....North Korea has rolled out the red carpet this month in exceptional style.
		What amused me and my comrades no end was that we could see the buses pulling into the town before dawn and discharge their passengers who performed limited maintenance throughout the day and generally walked around to give the impression that the town was occuppied.
		Then shortly after dark the buses returned to pick up that crew and take them back to the significantly less photogenic village back behind the DMZ that no one was allowed to enter.
	newsbusters.org /node/2543 (1271 words)

	META Group, Inc. - No More "Potemkin Village" Records Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Until recently, records management archives at most organizations were created with the idea that users will rarely, if ever, need to retrieve anything from them.
		Response times measured in hours or days, or expensive per-access internal charges, are a good indicator of these "Potemkin village" archives.
		This write-once/read-never approach to records management is no longer tenable.
	www.metagroup.com /us/displayArticle.do?oid=51569 (121 words)

	One-Trick Pony: The Potemkin Village Idiot Strikes Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And a friend wrote to compliment me on the wordsmithing of "Potemkin Village Idiot".
		I googled it and found that the phrase has only been used three times before and I'm the first to apply it to Bush.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	webquest.org /bdodge/2005/09/potemkin-village-idiot-strikes-again.htm (337 words)

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