Word: kgb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There existed another, real task force," explains Elena Milashina, Novaya Gazeta's investigative reporter, who did brilliant work on unraveling Beslan. "[It] was headed by the FSB [the heir to the KGB] from Moscow that had been preparing an assault right from the outset. Having the hostages released through negotiations did not meet their agenda, as set by the Kremlin...
...functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will be in charge of a gathering to which, by any objective measure, he should not have been invited. Even now a small army of diplomats is buttoning up the communiqués that will record a bland consensus on three topics Putin has chosen for the first...
...canonizes Lenin as "the guardian of the poor and the weak." Reality is also given an alternate course in Kurkov's 2000 satire of the modern-day Ukrainian Security Service, The Kind Angel of Death, in which a colonel complains that a lack of funding is forcing the former kgb to "use the passive help of our citizens ... Unfortunately, none of these assistants of ours ever managed to assist us without our help." Kurkov captures such absurdities of post-Soviet existence with characteristic black humor. Born in St. Petersburg, Kurkov grew up in Kiev, where his parents moved when...
...that it was not very good at preparing students for anything other than further education,” Daniloff says.But what undergraduate education prepares a student for enemy capture?In 1986 while working as a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, Daniloff was arrested by KGB agents and held in a Moscow jail on charges of espionage.In late August, Daniloff went to meet a friend, promising his wife, Ruth Daniloff, that he would be back in time for lunch. “1:30, 2:30, 3 p.m., and no sign of him,” Ruth says...
...totalitarianism, start with the Bosko Café facing Lenin's Tomb across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste-and order your vodka straight away...