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...films of director Sergei Dvortsevoy, showing at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on Nov. 4 and 5, offer insight into the daily lives of marginalized residents of Kazakhstan and other former Soviet countries. Those hoping to catch a glimpse of a real live Kazakh next weekend, however, are better off seeing Ali G’s “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Although Dvortsevoy was originally scheduled to appear for the screenings of his films, he won’t make it to the United States. Brooke Holgerson...
...listening to him, he said things about daily exercises (do them), psychotropic drugs (don’t take them), and water (don’t drink too much of it or you will grow fat). He also told us about a guy who tried to kill him, and the Soviet army sergeant who pushed him out of a plane even though he had heart palpitations. After the lecture was over, we all sat in the lobby and waited to go in for our brief, closed-door one-on-one. During mine, he told me never to take methadone, I guess...
...wrongdoing in the course of the state's sale of its controlling interest in a major bank in 2005), Olmert needs help. Lieberman brings with him 11 seats in the Knesset, along with the party's constituency, a large bloc of the roughly 1 million immigrants from former Soviet republics now living in Israel. (Lieberman himself was born in Moldova.) That raises the Olmert coalition's majority to 78 out of the Knesset's 120 seats, compensating, perhaps, for a steep postwar decline in his public support, and girding him for the traditionally tempestuous forthcoming budget debates, which have been...
...When the Soviet Union collapsed, Chechens yet again declared the independence of the Ichkeria Republic, although only the Taliban regime in Afghanistan recognized it. In the first Chechen War of the ’90s, the post-perestroika Russian army was unable to break Chechen will. Forced by demoralized soldiers and angry public opinion, President Boris Yeltsin signed a ceasefire. The second, ongoing Chechen War began under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, with a much stronger military. In a battleground too obscure and too dangerous for Western journalists, the military launched total war against the rebellious Chechens. In order...
...ever since have vehemently resisted Russian control. Invariably uprising once a generation, they even collaborated with Nazi invaders in the ’40s. Comrade Stalin was so enraged about this betrayal that he called for genocidal mass deportations—and actually scattered millions of Chechens around the Soviet Union—yet the Chechen nation survived the dictator...