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Whatever the final outcome of the cases, the deaths of Litvinenko and Politkovskaya have chilled Russia's already frosty civil society, and revived memories most Russians would prefer to forget. Back in the bad old days of Soviet rule, fear was prevalent. People who spoke up against Kremlin authoritarianism knew what to expect: harassment, isolation, imprisonment and worse. Most people dared to grumble only in the relative safety of their own kitchens, but a hardy few - advocates of freedom such as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky - made their dissent public...
...years since the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia has been transformed; it's now much richer, more democratic and infinitely more open than it was. But, to the alarm of many Russians and some in the West, the old fear is returning. It is fueled by such things as the lists of targeted Russian activists that circulate on the websites of shadowy ultranationalist groups, and also by recent measures taken by the Putin administration, including a squeeze on the independent press and new laws that could be used to silence opposition voices. "There may no longer be shortages of groceries...
...journalists, and what opponents see as an erosion of Russia's democratic institutions. The ranks of the new dissidents are swelled by unlikely recruits - men such as Alexei Kondaurov, who, as a major-general of the kgb's Fifth Main Directorate, was responsible for crushing ideological subversion in Soviet days. Kondaurov is now a member of the Duma's Communist Party faction, and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of his friend and former employer, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed Yukos, Russia's biggest private oil company. Khodorkovsky is currently in jail after having been convicted on tax evasion and fraud charges...
...back, only better. The Lomo LC-A+ is now handmade in China, but the look is still Soviet cool. And the lens still comes from the St. Petersburg factory, so the visual quirks - intense colors, sharp contrast, wacky focus - remain intact. A new multiple exposure switch allows unlimited shots on a single frame, while the added cable release lets you fire the shutter from afar. At $320, this model also costs more, but one thing hasn't changed: Lomo is sticking to film. Says Lomographic Society head Matthias Fiegl: "Because young people are used to digital photography, analog is special...
...Every day the people in the whole world are wishing each other everything best in different languages,” Gorbachev wrote in a 1994 letter to McCormack. “This is a symbolic thing. It expresses the essence of human life,” the former Soviet leader added...