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Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, an independent think tank, said the trip "was pretty successful in the sense that he managed to reassure the leaders of these countries and to not make any statements which would seriously influence the Russian leadership." The problem in "Russian-American relations in this part of the world is to keep certain expectations and not to aggravate," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Balancing Act in Georgia and Ukraine | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...Summers became chief economist at the World Bank. That same year, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russian-American Shleifer—under the auspices of the World Bank—became an adviser to the Russian government, eventually leading economic liberalization efforts through the Harvard Institute for International Development...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Andrei Shleifer and J. Bradford DeLong | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

Welcome to Postwar (nothing to do with war) British (does Trinidad count as British?) and American (Russian-American, that is) Fiction. In a fair world, this course would be called "Books that James Wood Likes." At Harvard we call it English 168d...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 168d, "Postwar American and British Fiction" | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...Field can expect some latenight calls. For VN is not only a revision of His Life in Part but a revisionist view of the man and much of his art. The literary icon Field once cryptically defined as a "Russian-American writer of our time and of his own reality" is now called a "great Russian-American Narcissus." Late novels such as Ada and Look at the Harlequins! are seen as works of a "garden-variety egotist." Both books have their share of self-indulgence and preening; neither approaches the level of masterpieces like Lolita and Pale Fire, the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revisions | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Candidate Bush chastised Bill Clinton for turning Russian-American relations into a game of personal chemistry. That was forgotten when Bush first met Putin last month and gushed that he had looked into the former KGB man's eyes "to get a sense of his soul." Bush believes his charm and persuasiveness will move his pal Putin to let the U.S. do what it wants. As an adviser puts it, the Administration is going to "work it and work it and work it and work it" until Putin gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Salesman On The Road | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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