Word: arbat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author; in New York City. Rybakov started writing stories part time while driving a truck. His children's book The Dirk, published in 1950, was an immediate success and admired by Stalin. On the other hand, it took years for him to get his epic novel Children of the Arbat published. When the work--which freely discusses Stalin's terrors--finally appeared in 1986, it sold more than 1 million copies in the Soviet Union...
...student who lives in Krasnodar, a midsize agricultural town in southern Russia. Each summer he goes to Moscow to earn money to pay for his education by drawing caricatures of people who stroll past his tiny fold-up chair tucked next to the sidewalk in the capital's busy Arbat Street. "I'm not going to vote," he declares, voicing an attitude that seems to be shared by many of Russia's young people. "Yeltsin will win anyway, so I don't think my vote would make a big difference." Also, like some other young Russians, Kovolev seems to have...
...form of $100 bills. Everyone from small savers to businessmen to members of the Mafia relies on hundreds, so the changes in the bill are causing high anxiety. Last week Maria Meshkova, a single mother, was in line outside the Novogorodsky currency exchange in Moscow's Old Arbat Street. There was fear in her voice as she explained she had already changed her meager supply of $100 bills into smaller U.S. notes. Now she was back trying to split her last remaining $50 bill "just in case, you never know." She feared that the new hundred might somehow make...
...microeconomic sense, that was also the case recently on Moscow's busy Old Arbat, where currency-exchange dealer Ilya was inspecting what appeared to be a legitimate $100 note. "It's a fake," he said. Turning the bill over, he pointed to the o in United States of America: it was too close to the f. At Kredobank, a privately held Russian bank, a Moscow casino operator recently tried to deposit $10,000 in cash. It wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Kredobank, like most Russian banks, confiscates forged currency but usually does not report the incident...
...activity, Strauss, who has never before lived abroad, is far from happy in Moscow. He and his wife miss their family and friends and the comforts of life in the U.S. Routine diversions are meager: on weekends he might shop for souvenirs or artwork in the Old Arbat near Spaso House, then return home and warm up canned chili for lunch. "Helen and I gave up a life we simply loved to come over here," Strauss says. "We didn't do it because I wanted to add another title to my resume or to be exposed to a Russian winter...