Word: russianizing
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...Russian government recently admitted that Vladimir Putin earned 11% more than his superior President Dmitry Medvedev. Putin is only the premier, but he was the head man before that, so some of his pay package may have been grandfathered. The Russians did not say. (See pictures of Putin's patriotic youth camp...
...MOSCOW Russian women prefer their swimwear jeweled, like this Gottex suit...
...prank. It’s hard to imagine a government agency more past its prime. Nearly every major manned program undergone by NASA since the early 1970s has run over budget and been delayed. Now, with the shuttle program ending, NASA will likely have to rely on Russian rockets soon (as early as 2011) just to get American astronauts to the space station...
...Angels in America” sweeps back into focus for its second night, more vibrant and complex than the evening before. The second half, fittingly called “Perestroika,” a Russian term for restructuring, initiates and affects a profound upheaval in the emotional and spiritual lives of its characters. As the vague connections between all six main characters begin to develop into close relationships, the masks slip from their faces, revealing what truly lies at their core. The most gentle characters, like Harper and Belize, turn out to have the greatest strength of mind and character...
...fast, say some Czechs, who still remember living under Soviet domination. "I don't want to be under the Russian sphere of influence but under the American one," says David Cerny, 41, a celebrated if slightly infamous local artist. Cerny wants the U.S. to stick to the missile shield plan. "It would be really sad if this intelligent guy who succeeded Bush, about whom no one had a high opinion, would barter Eastern Europe for a better image of the United States," Cerny says, worrying that Obama is drawing too close to Russia...