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...have always reacted negatively to those who, with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies, prowl into others' lives.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, denying rumors that he has secretly divorced and plans to remarry...
...Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil. But this is its first venture into Mexico, the undisputed leader in Latin American film and TV production. While Mexico's steamy telenovelas are cheap to make, they are wildly popular across the globe, being translated into over 50 languages from Russian to Indonesian. Teaming up with Mexican production company Argos, HBO brought in top cinema talent such as Carlos Carrera, director of the controversial hit film The Crime of Father Amaro, about a priest's affair with a teenage girl. It also persuaded Mexican authorities to let it work with dozens...
...Peace. It also claims to have “develop[ed] a genuine partnership” with Russia. Nevertheless, the relationship between NATO and Russia remains strained because of NATO’s history as an anti-Communist organization. In a recent discussion with German chancellor Angela Merkel, outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putin called NATO “an endless expansion of the military bloc under modern conditions when there is no confrontation between two hostile systems.” Putin sees NATO as a continuation of a Cold War political system that no longer has relevance, to the point...
...Magazine, with a wry sense of humor. “They put me in a tiny leopard print minidress with gold platforms and a gold belt and hair like this,” she says, gesturing expansively. “I mean, I looked like a 45-year-old Russian prostitute!” In the era of chick lit’s ascendancy in the mass market publishing industry, Dovey sees the cards as stacked against female novelists of a more literary inclination. “I suppose there are young female authors who are taken as seriously...
Keith A. Gessen ’97 might have lived the vast majority of his life in America, but, as his book-flap biography points out, he was born in Russia. And though the fact of his birth does not make him a “Russian writer,” the utmost seriousness with which he approaches literature, very clearly on display in his debut novel, “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” does establish him as a writer in the Russian model. It is not that Gessen sees no room for levity...