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Pizza Huts in the land of Pushkin? Oreo cookies in Omsk? Big Macs in Belgrade? ! Yes, all that -- and more. Maybe...
...Almsgiving from the population reached a peak during the religious holidays; but it was continual all through the year, and sometimes took the form of money handed to the convicts as they shuffled through the streets of Omsk in a work convoy. The first time Dostoevsky received alms in this way was 'soon after my arrival in prison.' A ten-year-old girl-the daughter of a young soldier, who had seen Dostoevsky in the army hospital when she came to visit her dying father-passed him walking under escort and ran back to give him a coin...
...days, 7865 kilometers, Peking to Moscow via Ulan Balor, Irkutsk, Novisibirsk and Omsk. Taking the Trans-Siberian railroad shouldn't be this easy. Just allow two weeks in Pecking: After making a reservation at the China International Travel Service (CITS), report to the Russian Embassy to apply for a free transit visa. A week later, pick it up and present it to the Mongolian Embassy, which in a single day will grant you a transit visa for $2, payable only in U.S. dollars. (As a penalty for not recognizing the People's Republic of Mongolia, Americans pay double) Then return...
Typical of the soldiers of fortune who drifted to movie work was Phil Tannura, a Signal Corps cameraman whose journey to 1919 Russia recorded the maltreatment of Bolshevik captives. "We came to a prison in Omsk," he recalls. "They brought thirteen [prisoners] out and I noticed some soldiers on the side with guns. I asked what the soldiers were for. 'Well,' they said, 'you wanted to shoot them...
...Andrei Sakharov, 54, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and nuclear physicist, last week made it a point to travel from Moscow to Omsk, 1,200 miles away, to attend the trial of another dissident, Mustafa Djemiliev, 31. The official Soviet news agency Tass claimed that Sakharov and his wife broke into the courtroom and "noisily" demanded seats. Tass went on: "The man, who turned out to be Sakharov, slapped the militia man in the face and then struck a militia major. [Sakharov's wife] joined in the fight and struck the commandant of the courtroom while Sakharov shouted...