Word: siberian
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...values, and praising President Vladimir Putin as "more liberal and democratic than 70% of our population." Yukos stock jumped on hopes the recant - reminiscent of Stalin-era confessions - might be part of a deal to free Khodorkovsky. Fat chance. Although authorities indicated they would allow Yukos to keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks he can mend fences with Putin," says political analyst Dmitri Furman. It can't hurt to try - By Peter Gumbel. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich Someone's Paying...
...capable not only of assuming a defensive attitude, but one of absolute offense." A century after Weale's Harbin sojourn, accommodations there are more, well, accommodating. Among the classier places to stay is the Lungmen Hotel, tel: (86-451) 8679 1888. Once a station hotel along the Trans-Siberian railroad, the Lungmen is a portal to Harbin's colonial past, when the city was ruled by Russians and vied with Shanghai for the sobriquet "Paris of the East...
...rejuvenated Iraqi national identity sans Saddam. Moreover, as the proverbial cradle of civilization, Iraq’s loss is a loss for us all, diluting the reservoir of world heritage and erasing pieces of our common history. Combined with the war in Afghanistan, when disturbed migratory patterns brought the siberian crane and other species to the brink of extinction, it also forms a disturbing trend. The United States has ushered in a new era of preemptive war, an era in which it should be able to anticipate and prevent much of the collateral damage its aggression incurs. So far, however...
...feels very Siberian,” she said, looking out on Cambridge from the tower as the moist wind blew between the bells...
...This Siberian band has produced its own studio albums—nine in all—and claims Elvis, the Spice Girls and Fidel Castro as influences. Their music is a fusion of rock’n’roll and ethnic music from Russia. 8:30 p.m. $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...