Word: siberian
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...frozen winter night on russia's far eastern edge, Pavel Fomenko and a truckload of comrades are cruising slowly, headlights off, down an ice-covered riverbed. Under a full moon, Fomenko has seen the giant paw prints of the Amur tiger, more widely known as the Siberian tiger. But he is not hunting the striped cat; he's hunting the hunters. Working for the World Wildlife Fund in cooperation with Russian authorities, he is leading an anti-poaching patrol, going after criminals who try to profit from killing one of the world's most magnificent--and endangered--creatures. Telltale tire...
Indeed, perhaps the greatest lesson that can be learned from the spectacle--if large chunks of the Siberian tundra can teach a lesson at all--is that publicity stunts and natural history just...
Like the Spanish Bourbons, the Romanovs inherited the hemophilia gene from Queen Victoria. But striking the heir Alexis, it proved fatal to the dynasty. The Czarina Alexandra fell under the influence of the Siberian wonder worker Rasputin--and she interfered with policy with disastrous results. Well-meaning but weak, Czar Nicholas could only give way to war, upheaval and finally the Bolsheviks, who massacred the family in a cellar on July...
...novel Dreams of My Russian Summers, the author told lively, fascinating tales of his hero's Siberian grandmother, then wavered into lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater...
...second half of Slavs! begins exchanges dark humor for just plain darkness, but the exchange is an important one. Jessica Shapiro '00, playing a "mutant" little Siberian girl named Vodya who cannot speak due to radiation poisoning, gives a haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot...