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...Authentic Toga Party: Those grants will buy you a lot of bedsheets, grapes, Roman laurels, and at least two nubile slave girls from the tribes along the R. Volga...
...president’s consistency, and his ability to be successful in his cavalier style of foreign policy, has not yet come. During his visit to Moscow on Sunday, Bush and Putin were strictly convivial, with the Russian president letting his American colleague take his prized 1956 Volga GAZ-21 sedan for a spin around the presidential compound. As Bush’s apparent hard line on Russian democracy appeared to dissolve into simply a difference in interpretation of history, Bush-watchers were left with important questions: Is the president really as serious about spreading democracy as he claims...
...show how well everyone was getting along. Rice and Lavrov held a joint press conference to put that letter writing business behind them. The two presidents embraced and smiled broadly as they greeted each other at the Russian presidential residence, then took a joy ride in Putin's Volga, a vintage 1956 Soviet automobile...
...cause. Two aircraft left Tuesday night from the same Moscow airport, and dropped off the radar screens within 60 seconds of each other. At 10.53 p.m. traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 1047, a Siberia Airlines flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region, where 1303 fell...
...this summer's The Bourne Supremacy, ex--CIA agent MATT DAMON steals a Volga taxi and is pursued through the streets of Moscow. It's almost as hair raising as a rush-hour trip to the airport...