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...seven-member Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), along with a three-member investigating subcommittee, scrutinized Shleifer’s purported role in conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by making private investments in the Russian economy while he helped advise a federally sponsored and Harvard-run aid program there...
Check out the Red Elvises, who describe their music as a combination of “good old rock ‘n roll with ethnic music from their homeland.” The band, formed by two Russian refugees in 1995, derives its name from the duo’s love of the late crooner and their passion for the color red (how apropos...
...Mused Dmitri Furman, Professor of the Russian Academy's of Sciences Institute of Europe: "In Soviet times, funerals of individuals frowned upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley...
...Until now, murders and persecution of dark-skinned foreigners and Russian citizens of "wrong" ethnic origins had been the prerogative of the country's right-wing neo-Nazi groups. But as the state embarks on a vicious xenophobic campaign against Georgians, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (NDPI), a key nationalist body known among the initiated as the Movement Against Non-Slav Immigration, eagerly called upon its followers to support the state in exposing "the enemy" wherever they can be found - at marketplaces, in offices, at homes. While the state still pays lip service to weeding out violators...
...well. The U.S. and Europe are shocked and indignant, but the furor will quiet down in a month or so, as it always does. And then Politkovskaya won't be around to testify against the Kremlin in the Western human rights forums. The killing was a clear message to Russian journalists and human rights activists: Those of you who choose to ignore it will be next...