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Thirty-year-old Misha Borisovich Vainberg, the hero of Absurdistan, is in every way and dimension an exaggerated character: grossly fat, filthy rich, loudly sentimental and operatically miserable as only a Russian can be. Vainberg lives in St. Petersburg, but his spiritual home is America, which he adores beyond all reason. Unfortunately, he's stuck in Russia because of trouble with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Pines Misha: "I am an American impounded in a Russian's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Absurdistan: From Russia, with Love | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...Wednesday arrested a junior Russian embassy official, after reportedly catching him listening to a bugging device planted in a State Department conference room often used by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The arrest of Second Secretary Stanislav Borisovich Gusev, who has been ordered to leave the U.S. within 10 days, follows last week's arrest in Moscow of Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary at the U.S. embassy there. And her detention followed the earlier arrest of a U.S. Navy officer on charges of selling secrets to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tensions High, U.S. and Russia Replay Cold War | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

Subsequent to the death of Golos, the courier handling material received from the Silvermasters and Ullmann delivered it through an unidentified individual to Anatoli Borisovich Gromov,who, until Dec. 7, 1945, was assigned as first secretary of the Soviet embassy, Washington, D.C., when he returned to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE CASE RECORD: BROWNELL: | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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