Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice of General Mikhailov to lead a group of journalists on a tour of Russian-controlled parts of Chechnya is an intriguing one. In 1996 he was chief spokesman for the Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired...
Mikhailov apparently regards journalists in much the same way he views Chechens. If anyone has visited the other side in this war, he says unsmilingly as we prepare to take off from Moscow, don't mention it to Russian soldiers. You could have "serious problems...
...Chekov's later, more famous works. The new production of Ivanov now running at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) is also astonishingly gorgeous. Directed by Yuri Yeremin, one of Russia's most respected directors, the A.R.T. production unfolds like a visual symphony. Were the play acted in the original Russian, it would still be a joy to watch. Unfortunately, this beauty is the downfall of the A.R.T.'s Ivanov. The subtle eloquence of Chekov's masterpiece finds little room to express itself in the lushness of Yeremin's vision, and what ensues is a battle between two equally valid...
...Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic National only last month to end some 40 percent of its dealings with Russian banks. All of that will inevitably provide fertile ground for speculation as to the killers' motive, but until they're caught - if they're caught - speculation...
...remiss of both Washington and Moscow?s intelligence services not to keep tabs on the other's military - after all, they remain potential long-term adversaries in a variety of scenarios. Tit-for-tat arrests and expulsions, however, are the melodramatics of a past era. These days U.S. and Russian intelligence services actually work closely together on issues such as terrorism and money laundering, and a quiet word or a discreet expulsion might have sufficed if, indeed, there was espionage under way. But that would be to miss a domestic political opportunity. "The atmosphere in Russian politics is increasingly anti...