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- August 15, 2008
- Caucasian Stalemate
Last Thursday, after several days of skirmishes and confrontation in the breakaway region of Ossetia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced a unilateral cessation of hostilities. Hours later, however, Saakashvili ordered his armed forces to undertake a full-scale assault on Ossetia...
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- August 4, 2008
- Solzhenitsyn
This morning, Vermont Public Radio called to interview me about Solzhenitsyn's legacy and his life in Vermont. I had just interviewed his wife, Natalya Dmitrievna, while in Moscow in May. We had planned to run that interview in our Nov/Dec issue, to coincide with what would have been the author's 90th birthday. But now we will push it up and run it in our Sep/Oct issue, which goes to press this week.
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- June 13, 2008
- Voloshin Poems
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Translator Constantine Rusanov has crafted these wonderful English versions of 11 of Maximilian Voloshin's poems. They are reprinted here with permission. The copyright to the English versions remains with Mr. Rusanov. To see the English translations alongside the original Russian, download <a href="http://www.russianlife.net/pdf/voloshin.pdf">this PDF file</a>.
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- February 7, 2008
- The Case Against Brodsky
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The secret transcript (in Russian) of Joseph Brodsky's show trial in a St. Petersburg court, at which he was sentenced to 5 years (later reduced to 18 months) of hard labor in the North. Short portions of the transcript are often cited, but this full transcript offers a vivid look at the Kafkaesque Soviet system of justice.
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- June 15, 2007
- Leo Tolstoy
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Learn about the varied life of this Russian writer, born to nobility and author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina".
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- February 13, 2007
- Doctor Zhivago and Khrushchev
Find out what this son of peasants turned Premier of the Soviet Union had to do with an upper class writer and his epic novel.
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- June 7, 2005
- Book Picks - Health
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Editor's choice of books concerning Russia's health.
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