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...Reichstag contrivance does not detract from the thousands of striking black-and-white pictures the Ukrainian-born Khaldei recorded on the front lines, a couple hundred of which are on show. They ranged from the defense of the Arctic city of Murmansk in 1941 to the Red Army's westward advance across the Crimea, then Bucharest, Sofia and Belgrade, and finally Budapest, Vienna and Berlin. One of the subtexts of the show is the epic dimension of the war on Germany's Eastern Front, which is often underappreciated in the West. By measure of manpower, duration, territorial reach and casualties...
...What Churchill offers is a sea-and-land short cut for ships carrying goods along a north-south axis between Europe and the Americas. Cargo from, say, Murmansk, Russia, can be unloaded at the port and carried by rail to Canada, midwestern U.S. states or even Mexico. The port is already ice-free five months of the year, and with some judicious ice- breaking that season could be extended by a full 30 days on either end. Broe, who happens to own North America's largest privately held railway, profits from both legs of the journey. "No one has ever...
...RUSSIA The Kola Peninsula, which borders Norway, is an Atlantic salmon paradise. Trips with Fishingnorth kick off from Murmansk; cold war-era helicopters drop you and a guide on such remote rivers as the Pana. Most fishing spots have huts in case the Arctic weather turns nasty. tel: (46) 928 10088; www.fishingnorth.com...
...RUSSIA The Kola Peninsula, which borders Norway, is an Atlantic salmon paradise. Trips with Fishingnorth kick off from Murmansk; cold war-era helicopters drop you and a guide on such remote rivers as the Pana. Most fishing spots have huts in case the Arctic weather turns nasty. tel: (46) 928 10088; www.fishingnorth.com...
...DIED. SIMON CUMBERS, 36, Irish freelance cameraman working for the BBC; from gunshot wounds; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cumbers covered stories from Omagh to Murmansk and was described by colleagues as a graceful journalist who had a gift for talking his way into sensitive places. With him in Riyadh was BBC correspondent FRANK GARDNER, 42, who survived being shot in the abdomen. The two journalists came under fire while reporting in a neighborhood believed to be a militant stronghold...