Tag Archives: former ussr

Spies: The KGB in the United States

By Jonathan Mok | Published: July 25, 2009
"There is a widespread misunderstanding about Joseph McCarthy’s role in bringing Soviet espionage to the attention of the public."
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Alexander Rybak: sexy, sparkly multiculturalism

By Natalia Antonova | Published: May 16, 2009
"Fairytale" was the perfect song for the venue and mood of Moskva 2009.
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Inside Chernobyl: those who stayed

By Natalia Antonova | Published: April 30, 2009
"I had studied previous photographic work on Chernobyl, and so I was prepared to see mutations."
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Happy March 8th! Now smile and put on some make-up!

By Natalia Antonova | Published: March 8, 2009
The earnestness of this day is a reminder of the crises and failures of the last twenty years - so it must be smothered in roses and champagne. Marx and Engels had us all bamboozled, as it turned out.
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Love, Money, Violence: the economic crisis and the post-Soviet marriage

By Natalia Antonova | Published: February 20, 2009
Well, I wouldn't tell anyone to "go to hell" if I was indifferent to them either - but it doesn't mean I'm madly in love.
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Cold War revisited: “Red Dawn”

By Mark Farnsworth | Published: September 1, 2008
"Red Dawn" is the ultimate ‘what if?’ movie.
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Cold War revisited: “The Thing”

By Mark Farnsworth | Published: August 24, 2008
The most frightening moments of the movie are the most human.
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Russia and Georgia: darkness falls

By Natalia Antonova | Published: August 10, 2008
Political elites benefit from grand-standing, regular people just lose their limbs in the process.
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The deaths that bind us: Solzhenitsyn, Pugovkin, Mordyukova

By Natalia Antonova | Published: August 4, 2008
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though?
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Today, the Washington Post made me gnash my teeth

By Natalia Antonova | Published: January 30, 2008
Just because nobody was wearing Chanel does not mean that there was no beauty.
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