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...year's National Book Award for his wildly ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
Mitnick is, first and foremost, a writer of musicals. He began his musical career when he co-wrote the Freshman Musical, Get Some, during his first year at Harvard. That summer, he co-wrote As the Word Turns, a Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s production about a wicked Russian trying to steal the vowels from the English language. After his Hasty Pudding debut, doors suddenly opened for the young writer. He co-wrote his first off-Broadway musical, Snapshots, that premiered in August, 2004. The show starred the cast of Webber’s Bombay Nights...
...Russia. Many voters hoped that such an alliance would ease the burden of cleaning up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster next door in Ukraine, which contaminated almost 23% of Belarus and still costs the government nearly 25% of its meager $3 billion budget. The Batska promised to prevent Russian-style plunder of the new nation by capitalist oligarchs. But voters never imagined he would take them back to the Stalinist past. Once in office, he rolled back privatization, stifled economic reforms, renationalized most banks, stepped up centralized controls and preserved collective farms. Minsk today looks like...
...fate of those who oppose the regime. When, in 1999, Gennady Karpenko, a former member of parliament then challenging the President, died of an apparent brain hemorrhage, people were swift to suggest he had been murdered. Three more prominent opposition activists have since disappeared. And in 2000, when a Russian TV cameraman was kidnapped and murdered, some alleged he had been the mistaken victim of a politically motivated assassination. Christos Pourgourides, delegated by the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly to look into these cases, concluded in a January 2004 report that top state officials took steps "to cover...
...bestia. The Real Colegio Complutense Spanish Film Series features Alex de la Iglesia’s new, devilishly funny take on the Antichrist. In Spanish with English subtitles. 26 Trowbridge St. Free. 7:30 p.m. (AMF)Muzika Without Borders 2005 North American Tour. Presented by the Russian Boston Rock Club, this concert features the Ukrainian band 5’nizza, known for their mix of reggae, Latin rhythms, house music, and rap, and the light rock Russian band Markscheider Kunst, touring in promotion of their new album Na Svyazi. The Middle East. 9 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...