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...been very low key, but Moscow has kept close tabs on the U.S. presidential race. Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN has cabled his embassy in Washington demanding periodic updates on what the polls show, and Russian diplomats have been hitting the lunch circuit to mine reporters and pundits on who is ahead--or, to be more precise, on how GEORGE W. BUSH is doing. And how hard line his foreign policy advisers...
Putin remains publicly neutral, but privately he is more worried about a Bush presidency than about AL GORE's occupying the Oval Office. "Moscow is very frustrated about Bush's position on national missile defenses," says a Russian official. Putin is trying to derail U.S. anti-ballistic missiles. Bush wants to rush to build a large system, while Putin believes Gore would be more cautious and perhaps postpone the defenses if the technology wasn't ripe...
...Number of articles on the midair explosion of a Russian-built charter plane in Angola, allegedly shot down by rebels for its diamond cargo, killing...
...cast of The Lower Depths proves that the Harvard stage can put on more Russian shows. There are no fewer than 14 students adept at portraying down on their luck drunks with existential hangups, essential for any future presentation of post-Dostoyevsky Russian drama. Gorky portrays a cross-section of the dregs of late 19th century Russian society with the typically Russian attention to the existence of God, the meaning of suffering and the futility of community. Surprisingly enough, the moral discussions that populate Gorky's low class world in lieu of action resonate well with students' rarefied sensibilities...
...Lower Depths sets an encouraging precedent for bringing more of Gorky's under-appreciated work to Harvard stages, as well as other twentieth century Russian drama. Strangely enough, people like...