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...Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [June 29?July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial...
...Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [june 29 - July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial crisis...
...Medvedev to revive the economy, including bailouts for the oligarchs that he estimates at roughly $11 billion. He has announced plans for an English-language radio channel in Moscow; bought the London newspaper the Evening Standard; announced plans to launch a democratic political party with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; and (briefly) run for mayor of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (Read a TIME article on why Mikhail Gorbachev is an environmental hero...
...find, if you like, the good oligarch - the Russian with whom Westerners can do business. He has made friends with prominent people in London (Elton John, Margaret Thatcher) and Hollywood (Kevin Spacey, John Malkovich), floating freely between boardrooms and state dinners. In March, Lebedev traveled to Washington with Gorbachev, who was slated to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. "I do and say whatever I want," he says. "If somebody wants to kill me, I do not treat it as enough reason to stop doing something, if I'm pursuing certain values or principles. It's simple." (See pictures...
...blaming it on him. I think he doesn't see it. These TV channels pocket billions of dollars in exchange for flattering Putin." Lebedev has hopes for Medvedev. He was impressed with the President's decision to meet with Novaya Gazetta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and Gorbachev earlier this year, following the killing of yet another Novaya Gazetta reporter. "Medvedev ... said he's a full supporter of the Gulag Memorial project," Lebedev says. (Memorial was the most important human-rights group to emerge from the perestroika era. For years it has pushed for a monument in the center...