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...innocents of The Winter Zoo are looking for pleasure, Vladimir Girshkin, the hero of Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, is after money. Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does a favor for a New York-based Russian mafioso, who pays him back by sending him to the East European city of Prava--read Prague--to run a pyramid scheme aimed at slumming young expats, the "pretty castoffs of well-to-do America, cruising along on their five-year plan of alcoholic...
...1930s, Shanghai's Russian community had swelled to more than 10,000 and was the second biggest in the city after the Japanese. Its members staged operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...
...that have long been done for legitimate purposes." The developing legal framework discourages such research by failing to distinguish well between legitimate and illegitimate exploitation. But when programmers intentionally infringe copyright, especially for commercial reasons, Felten says, "sympathy [among computer scientists] evaporates." One example may be the case of Russian Dmitry Sklyarov and his employer, ElcomSoft, the first criminal prosecution under the DCMA. WIPO director-general Kamil Idris says intellectual property can "turn creativity and inventiveness into social, cultural and economic wealth." But for whom? "Some people think copyright is the absolute right to control whatever intellectual property...
...which have as few as three speakers. Here is a stat that will leave you speechless: experts say 50% of the world's 6,000 languages may be extinct by 2050. These tongues include Tofa, spoken by some 200 in Siberia, and Votic, used by 30 people on the Russian coast of the Gulf of Finland. Other examples: --By Harriet Barovick...
...military is studying similar ideas to prevent a catastrophe at headquarters from disabling the whole organization. This is, of course, not an entirely new idea: as Lenin plotted the Russian Revolution, he mastered the organization of independent cells. What is new is the tools that allow strategists to explore the possibilities open to a modern group organized in cells and called al-Qaeda...