Word: irina
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...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
...love these Natashas," sighs a customs officer on the Georgia border. "God measured and created them." Hasan D., a Trabzon hotel worker, explains, "Married men do not want to practice what they see in porno movies with their wives. But they can with Natashas." As for the Natashas, Irina, a Russian art-history graduate, put it bluntly: "We are milking the Turks for all they are worth...
...diversion in a parking garage, Arkady jostles a swollen, glistening car. Its alarm screams. Another jostled car and another; the German miracle bawls its rage. On to post-Wall Berlin, awash in refugees and resentments, smelling of money, poverty and developers' schemes. Arkady has found his old love Irina, the Siberian beauty lost in the West since Gorky Park, and they spend the night together on the tiled floor of a raw, unfinished apartment...
...Irina Uspenskaya, 60, a retired economist and ethnic Russian, acknowledged the difficulties but said, "I'm voting for my grandsons. For me, I don't think anything is going to change soon, but for them, yes, I want independence...
When the Soviet President and his wife visited the U.S. recently, the writer they most wanted to meet was Ray Bradbury: their daughter is a fan. Irina is not alone. Bradbury's classic novels of fantasy and science fiction (The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451) have long been best sellers in 20 countries -- including, of course, the U.S.S.R...