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...first they had to learn that he existed at all. That turns out to be a story that begins with the painter Max Weber, a Russian Jewish émigré to New York City. It was Weber who brought the first Picasso canvas to the U.S., in 1909, on his return from a four-year stay in Paris, where he had befriended the indispensable Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, cocksure tastemakers and champions of Picasso. By that year Picasso and Braque were already off and running through the first stages of Cubism. Meanwhile, advanced American painting, such...
...Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg as "one of the most important human rights defenders in Russia today" would have been taken as a chilling development whenever it had occurred. The fact that it coincided with Kremlin efforts to drum up hostility toward neighboring Georgia following the arrest of four Russian military officers on spying charges make it even more so. President Vladimir Putin's tenure has seen a systematic rolling back of many of the freedoms attained by Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russians have watched their legislature and judiciary become increasingly subordinate to the Kremlin, which...
Anna Politkovskaya, the celebrated 48-year-old Russian journalist whose coverage of the war in Chechnya won international acclaim (including being named as one of TIME's European heroes for 2003), was assassinated outside her apartment last Saturday. The fact that her execution-style killing coincides with an escalation of Moscow's campaign against neighboring Georgia will be taken by many in Russia as a chilling signal of the rise of an authoritarian nationalism that brooks no challenge...
...very few people allowed by the Chechen group to enter the theater to negotiate on behalf of the hostages. During the Beslan School hostage crisis in 2004, Politkovskaya was badly poisoned (by state agents, she alleged), just as she was on the verge of brokering talks between senior Russian officials and Chechen separatist leaders to save the children. She barely survived that experience, but the death threats kept coming. Her enemies finally succeeded in silencing her with four bullets fired at point-blank range...
...school and threaten our children. In the world of international terrorism, children and schools are considered soft targets, providing high visibility for terrible acts that enrage and demoralize civilized communities. Just two years ago, this reality was confirmed when Chechen rebels invaded an elementary school in the remote Russian city of Beslan, killing more than 150 children and an equal number of teachers and other adults...