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...presidential election year -this time, to offset leftist moods growing in this oil-rich country that sells gasoline to its impoverished citizens at prices higher than those in the U.S. However, Kremlin PR men may miscalculate any new frenzy about Nicholas. The Emperor is seen as the weak Tsar, whose failures helped bring about both the terrorist revolution and the death of his innocent family. Using this card might prove as hard as proving the authenticity of those newly found remains...
...million adherents, and the U.S.-based Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR), which is believed to be 1.5 million strong. Many among the clergy and laity wept at the end of the 86 year-old schism brought about by the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and the ensuing murder of the dethroned Tsar and the forced emigration of hundred thousands Russians defeated in Civil war. While the sumptuous ritual was clearly an emotional and pious event, the reunification has political resonance as well because the Russian Orthodox Church is increasingly a symbol and projection of Russian nationalism...
...arrest in December 2004. CHARGED. Nikolai Zavadsky, 54, husband of the late Larisa Zavadsky, curator at Russia's Hermitage Museum, and his son, also Nikolai Zavadsky, 25; with theft; in St. Petersburg. Zavadsky senior confessed to helping his wife smuggle 53 items, including gifts to Russia's last Tsar, out of the Hermitage. A further 221 exhibits, worth some $5 million, remain missing, prompting President Vladimir Putin to order an inventory of all 50 million artworks kept in Russian museums. According to his lawyer, Zavadsky stole to buy insulin for his diabetic wife, whose curator's salary was well below...
...written in pidgin Latin—to notable contemporaries, such as the prince of Haiti, a pair of Siamese twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent rumored to frequent Massachusetts Bay in 1830 (awarded “M.D. et peculiariter M.U.D. Med. Fac. Hon”), and Tsar Alexander I—long before either the Hasty Pudding named a man of the year or the Lampoon inducted an honorary member...
...Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their 2002 Five Songs EP (which, in trademark cheeky Decemberists fashion, was comprised of six songs), through their two breakthrough LPs, Castaways and Cutouts...