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That mixture of the grisly and the lighthearted is characteristic of Boris Akunin, who in Russia is roughly the counterpart of John Grisham but is virtually unknown here in the benighted Western world. (Akunin is actually the pen name of a respected Georgian academic, Grigory Chkhartishvili. Don't worry, no...
RUSSIA Coming Out Fighting Grigory Pasko, sentenced in December 2001 to four years in a work camp on charges of spying, was released on parole by a civilian court. The former navy captain was arrested in 1997, after he exposed the navy's dumping of nuclear waste in the Pacific...
The closure of TV-6 comes just under a year after NTV was taken over by Gazprom, the state-controlled energy monopoly. Its management was gutted, and most of its news staff jumped over to TV-6. Then the country's best news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, staved off a...
ENNOBLED. CONRAD BLACK, 57, with the award of a seat in the British House of Lords; in London. Black is a millionaire newspaper magnate whose holdings include the Daily Telegraph in London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often...
It was closer than the oligarchs might have liked, but Vladimir Putin looks ready to take the "acting" part of his title and take over as the next president of Russia. With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, the tally shows Putin with 51.5 percent. A distant number...