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...Alexei, played by Oleg Menshikov (Prisoner of the Mountains, Burnt by the Sun) leaves France to start a new life in Russia, the country where he was born, with his wife Marie and son Serioja. It doesn't take long for Alexei and Marie to realize they have made a huge mistake. Upon arriving in Russia, in a scene reminiscent of Hitler's concentration camps, Alexei and Marie watch as soldiers separate family members and then shoot a boy that attempts to rejoin his father. Events take a turn for the worse when a KGB officer accuses Marie of being...
...Russian soldiers, young Vania, played by Bodrov's son Sergei Jr., and experienced Sasha (Oleg Menshikov) are ambushed and taken prisoner by a Chechen father. They are to be used as negotiating tools to facilitate the freedom of his son, who is being held in a Russian prison, despite the town leaders' repeated warnings that the Russians will bring nothing but trouble to every...
...than the locus of past political evil. For every person sent unwillingly to exile in its arctic wastelands, many others came to hunt, trap, fish, log or mine. The harsh life drove many back, but others stayed, captivated by the sublime beauty of earth's greatest northern landscape. Vitali Menshikov, an oceanographer by training, came to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East 27 years ago. He has returned to Leningrad only once; instead, he has used his vacations to take expeditions--61 so far--on ski and foot through this breathtaking land of volcanoes, geysers, forests, lakes and meadows...
Died. Mikhail Menshikov, 73, congenial Soviet Ambassador to Washington from 1957 to 1962; in Moscow. Menshikov undertook to thaw out the cold war-at least on the diplomatic cocktail circuit-with his informal, urbane style. "Smiling Mike," the nickname his sociability earned him, helped arrange Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. in 1959 and the Vienna talks between President Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...Menshikov met with Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, to discuss some work Leontief is doing for the United Nations...