Word: russianizing
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...possible to change this regime through democratic means. There can be no change without force, pressure.' BORIS BEREZOVSKY, exiled Russian billionaire, claiming that he was funding an attempt to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has called for Britain to strip the tycoon of his refugee status there and to extradite him to Russia
...bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells now in Lowell. The 18 bells in the tower originally hung...
...Advocate but I didn’t join any of them. I tried out for the Lampoon and I didn’t get in. I didn’t get a great sense from Harvard about what being a writer would be like. My parents were Russian immigrants so I knew what a Russian writer would be like and how a Russian writer lives, which is sort of like you sit around and drink tea with your friends and occasionally you write something...
...women’s side, Russian Lidiya Grigoryeva took the title with a time of 2:29:18, which was more than eight minutes slower than the course record set five years...
MARTHA STEWART, about a camel ride she took in Kazakhstan before watching the launch of a Russian rocket ship carrying her friend, billionaire Charles Simonyi, and two cosmonauts into orbit on a 13-day journey to the International Space Station. For Simonyi's trip, Stewart packed meals that included quail roasted in Madiran wine, duck breast confit with capers and shredded chicken parmentier...