Word: post-soviet
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Misha is a stateless being, trapped between a fantasy America and a debased post-Soviet Russia ("a nation of busybody peasants thrust into an awkward modernity") that he regards with an Oedipal mixture of love and contempt. East and West play a hilarious game of Telephone in his head--he's obsessed with hip-hop, and he and his best friend have formed an awful duo called the Gentlemen Who Like...
...early 20s and switched from accountant at a uranium-processing factory to development director of a shopping mall. The pay's not much better, but the job is a lot more dynamic and fun, she says. That sort of career move is typical of this generation, the first truly post-Soviet Russians. They are the best customers at Pavel V. Kukarskikh's string of restaurants in town, and the only people he will consider hiring. "The young want to live well," he says. "They have a taste for life. In 15 to 20 years they'll be running the country...
...Tuesday, and has already postponed his previously planned inauguration this coming Friday. But if Lukashenko is indeed feeling increasingly painted into a corner, perhaps he can take comfort from recent elections in nearby Ukraine, where at least one-third of the electorate retain strong support for the same post-Soviet Moscow-favored autocratic leader the voters rejected just 16 months...
...says, "found their completion and finally shaped up in 2005." Lilia Shevtsova, senior analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center in Moscow, laments that Putin has "abandoned even halfhearted attempts at deregulating the economy, pursuing administrative reform or curbing corruption." Instead, she says, "Russia is completing the creation of a post-Soviet state, which continues the Russian tradition of authority raised high above society." All of this clearly disturbs Illarionov. "I wish Russia would be a G-8 member as a developed, free and democratic country. I worked to that end," he told Time. Putin will be taking a different message...
These days Lenin leaves most Russians cold. As a post-Soviet generation comes of age and consumerism is the rage, the father of the Bolshevik Revolution is irrelevant. "No one discusses Lenin, not even our teachers," says Serezha, 17, who was riding his mountain bike nearby. And yet nearly 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lenin's body retains its place of honor in Red Square, where it has lain since 1924. Now Russia's ruling élite is exhuming an old debate: whether to move Lenin's body out of the mausoleum and bury it. Georgi...