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...than ever, and, because of economic power from oil and natural gas, its ability to dominate its neighbors is growing, not diminishing. Last January, economically vulnerable Ukraine was threatened with a quadrupling of the natural gas price that Russia had been charging—revenge for attempting to escape Russia??s sphere of influence...
...market. Poland’s neighbor and supposed European Union (EU) ally, Germany, hardly came to its rescue. Gerard Schroeder, then Germany’s chancellor, seemingly so idealistic in his opposition to the Iraq War and his shunning of George Bush, cultivated a close friendship with Vladimir Putin, Russia??s president. He never criticized Russia??s brutal suppression of Chechnya and even negotiated an agreement between Russia and Germany to build a natural gas pipeline that punitively bypasses Poland—the Baltic gas pipeline, placing Warsaw in a precarious economic and political position...
Perhaps you’ve already heard that the Lowell House bells are slated to be sent back to Russia??maybe even as early as this August according to Lowell House resident tutor and senior Klappermeister Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03. This fact, however, has not dampened the spirits of the students who climb the stairs to the bell tower every Sunday to create the jovial—if mildly clamorous—bell-ringing festivities.The Lowell House bells were purchased from the Soviet Union by Charles R. Crane, who presented them as a gift...
...going under the snow.” But its true meaning has nothing to do with weather. According to a Russian friend, it’s an aphorism for being assassinated. Podsnezhnik was exactly what happened to renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya two weeks ago. And with four bullet shots, Russia??s long road to Western-style public discourse took another step backward...
Anna was a great asset to Russia??s dwindling public sphere. Even her friends say she was not easy to bear, but harsh critics hardly are. Born in New York to Soviet diplomats from Ukraine, she decided to study in the motherland, graduating as a journalist from Moscow State University in 1980. Almost immediately, she focused on the disfranchised: the old, the poor, and refugees. She once declared she aimed at “reviving Russia??s pre-revolutionary tradition of writing about our social problems...