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...been a choreographed farce from beginning to end.' GARRY KASPAROV, former chess champion, on court proceedings after he was sentenced to five days in jail in Moscow. Kasparov had been arrested after attempting to lead an unauthorized march against Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...Self-Inflicted Wounds In the past several months, the west has so antagonized Russian President Vladimir Putin that it has pushed him into the arms of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Oct. 29]. The West is responsible for cementing the two formerly less-than-cordial nations. The worst nightmare would be if Russia goes all out to help Iran secure an arsenal of nuclear weapons. That would be a global debacle. Zi-zenn Chen, Sydney...
LONDON Leviev's Russian Candies earrings ($115,000) were inspired by the chamomile flower...
...Director of Eastern European and Soviet Affairs in President Reagan’s National Security Council, first became interested in the Soviet Union during World War II. His family fled Poland following the Nazi/Soviet invasion of September 1939. Pipes ended up in the United States, where he learned Russian as a member of the U.S. Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. “Everyone was interested in Russia largely because of World War II. Following the war, the study of Russia was a wide-open, exciting field and there were few American experts at the time...
Enter Countess Popova (Eve H. Bryggman ’10), a velvet-clad Russian vamp who rents a room beneath the Marcassols. Unable to restrain himself, Gustave quickly becomes more than just the Countess’ landlord. But he is convinced that he can only run away with her if he can secure a suitable second husband for Claudine...