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...Soviets for $55,000; the husband of a worker at a Silicon Valley defense firm used his wife's access to sell high-tech documents on ballistic-missile research to Polish intelligence for some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday in Los Angeles, Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov, two Soviet émigrés, are accused of attempting to buy secrets from Richard Miller, an FBI agent who was allegedly tempted by a promise of $65,000 in cash and gold. The list goes on: in the past 15 months, 15 people in the U.S. have been arrested...
When Katya Girenko answered the door of her family's rundown St. Petersburg apartment early one Saturday morning in mid-June, she saw two teenagers through the peephole. They asked if they could speak to her father, Nikolai Mikhailovich. When he went to the door and asked what they wanted, a gunshot rang out. The bullet smashed through the flimsy door and ripped into Girenko's chest, killing him almost instantly. At first glance, Girenko might seem an unlikely target for assassination. A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist...
...INDICATORS Crowded Skies Life In The Fast Lane Russian tycoon Nikolai Smolenski, 24, bought the high-end British sports car manufacturer TVR - 400 staff, 800 cars per year - for a reported $27 million. Smolenski plans to make the company a "global player...
...Strokes don't agonize over their influences; they synthesize them. And songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate add up to more than the sum of their stolen parts because the group is so tight. Moretti is a much more confident drummer this time out, while bassist Nikolai Fraiture thumps along with surprising soul, and Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. form one of the most complementary guitar duos in rock. Best of all, no one hogs the spotlight. Each player has the skills to stand out, but mostly you come away remembering the group's seamlessness...
...Strokes don't agonize over their influences, they synthesize them, and songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate add up to more than the sum of their stolen parts because the band is so tight. Moretti is a much more confident drummer this time out, while bassist Nikolai Fraiture thumps along with surprising soul, and Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. form one of the most complementary guitar duos in rock. Best of all, no one hogs the spotlight. Each player has the skills to stand out, but mostly you come away remembering their seamlessness. Room on Fire reaches...