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...Vysotsk - today a cluster of wooden houses with horse-drawn carts and creaking outdoor wells - a woman directed us to a memorial on the edge of the village. There, a large grave site was fenced off, and a Russian plaque announced that 1,864 Soviets - not Jews - were killed in 1942. So Desbois began knocking on doors along the one narrow road running through the village, in search of any witnesses to that day in 1942. "Were you living here during the war?" he asked as residents emerged from their homes, startled at the sight of an outsider. As darkness...
Pring-Wilson was a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in 2003 when he stabbed Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono to death in a chance encounter...
Pring-Wilson was a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in 2003 when he stabbed Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono in a fatal chance encounter...
...ways large and small, McCain distances himself from a President whom independents loathe. Bush infamously said he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul when he met the Russian strongman. McCain doesn't explicitly mention it. He just says that all he sees in Putin's eyes...
...Tamed Russia Your selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year was spot-on [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Putin may yet become the single most important person of the 21st century. Occupying the largest landmass of any nation, Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague...