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...taken photographs in war-torn and impoverished foreign countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran Rwanda, Tibet and Siberia...
...warned that it would reheat the arms race and threaten peaceful coexistence with the Soviets. But Reagan managed to touch the hearts and minds of those who mattered: the rebels behind the Iron Curtain who ultimately brought it down. Nathan Sharansky read Reagan's speech in a cell in Siberia. Knocking on walls and talking through toilets, he spread the word to other prisoners in the Gulag. "The dissidents were ecstatic," Sharansky wrote. "Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth--a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us." --By Romesh...
...biggest purchase of Russian equity ever. But just as BP was showing its faith in Russia, environmental groups were claiming the company had become an apostate to the green causes it once championed. TNK has some notoriously polluted assets, like the Ryazan refinery and the Samotlor field in western Siberia, where 6,500 hectares of land have been heavily contaminated. That won't impress groups like the U.K.-based World Wildlife Fund, which recently decided to sell its BP shares because of environmental concerns in Alaska and elsewhere. Emita Neville, head of advocacy at WWF, argues that BP is "more...
Libeskind's parents, Polish Jews, met for the first time in Kyrgyzstan, bordering China, to which they had separately made their way after escaping the Nazis in Poland and subsequently being arrested at the Soviet border, sent to Siberia, then released. Both lost most of their families in concentration camps. When they returned to Poland, they were trapped under the communist regime until the late 1950s, when an opportunity came for them to immigrate, first to Israel, then to New York with Daniel and his younger sister...
Longshan's residents are not given to complaining, though they inhabit one of the world's most inhospitable corners. Here, in this frozen stretch of wasteland in Heilongjiang province on the Chinese side of Siberia, the scenery is so desolate that its most notable features are heaps of coal piled so high they look like mountains. Many of the townspeople are laid-off coal miners, hopelessly cut off from the fruits of China's heralded economic boom. Still, hardship has taught them not to gripe about their lot in life. "What pleasant weather we're having," says the local bathhouse...