As American officials struggle to meet an Oct. 1 deadline for closing the 20-year-old USAID office in Moscow, it is worth looking at America’s other great 20th century aid program to Russians. In a corner of Public School 1262 in Moscow, there is a one-room, privately run museum, the Museum of the Allies and Lend-Lease. […]
Making the Kremlin Queasy: Massive American Aid Has Helped Russians Three Times in the Last Century
Posted September 25th, 2012 at 7:28 pm (UTC+0)
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‘Russia’s Tibet’ Opens to the Outside World
Posted September 18th, 2012 at 9:09 am (UTC+0)
Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was fitting as I was contemplating the silence of cedar forests, the grace of wild horses cantering through alpine meadows, and the beauty of glacier-fed rivers cutting through the rugged mountains of Russia’s remote Altai Republic. […]
Vlad in Vlad: Forging Russia’s First Hot City on the Pacific Rim
Posted September 11th, 2012 at 6:24 am (UTC+0)
The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at Vladivostok, the faraway city founded in 1860 by Czar Alexander II as Russia’s main port on the Pacific. In 2007, President Putin evidently decided that in the era of Asian tigers, Vladivostok was the Pacific […]
Putin’s Palaces, Yachts, Cars and Watches: An Opposition Guide to Russia’s Rich and Famous
Posted September 4th, 2012 at 12:55 am (UTC+0)
“I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night.” Vladimir Putin summing up his first two terms as president to Russian and foreign Press. Feb. 2008. It’s a nice image for voters at election time. But below decks on the Sirius, a 54-meter yacht, Russia’s president is not chained to […]
