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...Natalya Dmitruk walked onstage to accept her Time 2005 European Heroes award, she whispered to her Russian translator: "I can't believe I'm here with all these amazing people." That's certainly how we felt at Time in the presence of 25 of the individuals we had selected to feature in our third annual European Heroes special issue. Dmitruk, who's from Ukraine, was there because last fall she dared to tell the truth about the country's rigged presidential election. Some of the other Heroes at last month's London event included screenwriter Richard Curtis and musician...
...Sung, all housed underground to withstand nuclear attack. Delisle sketches a few scenes that highlight the absurdity of a friendship exhibition in an atomic bunker, but stops short of committing all the details to paper. "There's ... an armored vehicle from Stalin, another from Mao, three fabulous Russian cars from the '50s and one or two South Korean models," he writes, "but I'm too lazy to draw them all." A pity, but even without them, Delisle has drawn an unforgettable picture of Pyongyang...
DYSON: I'd like to argue strenuously with that. It may be happening in the U.S., but it's not happening in China, which is extremely nationalist. In Russia, I don't know any Russians who feel anything other than Russian. A brand does not replace a nationality...
...Watch, enjoy, and play one of the following “Big Lebowski” drinking games. In respect to “His Dudeness, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing,” the beverage of choice is the white Russian, a combination of two parts vodka, one part Kahlua, one part light cream...
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies fellow Carol R. Saivetz said that the U.N. resolution passed because of votes from Russia and China, which were secured when the explicit threat of sanctions against Syria was dropped by the U.S. and other council members...