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...notoriously high lifestyle of posh cars, penthouse apartments and expensive parties with revenues from Orange revolution symbols, patented in his name as trademarks and sold at the market like hot pies. Yushchenko only added insult to injury last summer, when he lashed out at the journalist Serhiy Leshchenko, 25, who wrote an expose of the presidential son. "The most amazing thing is that Yushchenko himself co-authored my story - and failed to realize this," Leshchenko told me at the time. "It was only due to his Orange revolution that now a journalist can write such stories in Ukraine - and stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Counter-Revolution in Ukraine? | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

...also boost home-grown talent. To a Westerner, Soviet rock sounds like a not entirely successful hybrid of imported kitsch, slicked-up folk melodies and a touch of Russian soul. "Soviet pop music has absorbed contemporary rhythms, but it has remained something individual in its musical phrasing," insists Lev Leshchenko, whose baritone soared above massed strings and a choir on one of the country's biggest hits, Day of Victory, a pop-sized commemoration of the end of World War II. Much Soviet pop plunges into the past. Pesnyary (the Songsters) is a band regarded in official circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Keeping the Comrades Warm | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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