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...ChatRoulette isn't a site that leaves much to the imagination, but one of the enduring mysteries is who exactly got the site started. In an interview with the New York Times, Moscow teenager Andrey Ternovskiy stepped out as the site's founder. Ternovskiy says he coded the site himself, with hosting for the project funded by family and friends. (The site now funds itself through a small line of advertisements at the bottom of the screen.) What's next for the 17-year-old whiz kid? More "weird" updates for ChatRoulette, and perhaps a trip across the Atlantic. Ternovskiy...
...most high-profile case is that of Andrey Erofeyev, former head of contemporary art at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery. In 2008 he was indicted and charged with inciting religious hatred after putting on an exhibition a year earlier at the Andrey Sakharov Museum in Moscow called "Forbidden Art 2006." The paintings depicted in the show were considered by authorities to be insulting to the Orthodox Church - one of the works showed a crucified Lenin, another portrayed Mickey Mouse as Jesus. Erofeyev was fired from his job at the Tretyakov in 2008, and his trial is ongoing. "Artists should...
...Control of the situation "is a question for the South Ossetian government. We are here supporting the South Ossetian side. We aren't here to secure the city," said Lieut. Colonel Andrey Bobrun. "The army does not carry out police functions. We are a military army...
...government announced it would review the firm's tax payments, a favorite harassment tactic. Rumors began circulating that another Yukos official, this time a top member of the board, would be charged with homicide. The attacks on Yukos caused such an uproar that Putin's own economics adviser, Andrey Illarionov, spoke publicly of the prosecutor's office's "selective" approach to the law. Other respected figures, like former Economics Minister Yevgeny Yasin, warned that the clampdown was part of a slow erosion of political and economic freedoms. "The whole case is quite simply politically motivated," says Aleksey Melnikov, a liberal...
...calls his book "a treatise on the biology of the emotions," but the book is really concerned with the biological basis of behavior The Tangled Wing aims for that same elusive understanding as E O Wilson's On Human Nature, Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden, and Robert Andrey's The Territorial Imperative, and it touches on the subjects of many other less sweeping books which have tried to solve the age-old debate between "nature" and "nurture...