September 01, 2002 Up from the Kommunalka We take you to the Venice of the North, on a private tour of the president's St. Petersburg homes and haunts, from the hospital he was born in, to the homes he lived in.
July 01, 2002 The Enobling Deception The language of cheating, lies and deceit. What could be richer in Russian?
July 01, 2002 Day in the Life: Kiosk Merchant Our new series, "Day in the Life," begins with a profile of Natalia Kvachenko, a self-made businesswoman who keeps the kefir flowing.
July 01, 2002 At Home with Alexei Nemov Alexei Nemov may just be the world's best gymnast. But we wanted to find out what this great athlete is like in person...
July 01, 2002 The Patriarch of Russian Painting Mikhail Nesterov painted images infused with spiritual beauty, inspiring generations of Russian painters that followed. His life story is one of amazing strength and artistic resilience.
July 01, 2002 The Russian Art of the Con A look at the art of cheating in Russia today--what are the newest cons and who is falling prey to them?
July 01, 2002 You're Only 300 Once! St. Petersburg is about to turn 300 and there's a party brewing! We kick off a year of special coverage of St. Petersburg with a round up of next year's Tercentennial festivities in the Northern Palmyra. Plus, we offer a Tercentenary Traveler's Resource Guide, listing places to stay and companies to help you get to St. Petersburg next year.
July 01, 2002 Staring at the World With an Ironic Gaze On August 20, Vassily Aksyonov turns 70. The son of party leader Pavel Aksyonov and author Yevgeniya Ginsburg (Into the Whirlwind), Aksyonov spent part of his childhood in Magadan, where his mother was incarcerated.
July 01, 2002 The Shape of Things Already Come Oh, for the days when Moscow was a quiet, Imperial City. Today it is overrun with net cafes and foreign cars. It seems there is no turning back.
July 01, 2002 A Remarkable Dissident July 1 would have been the 95th birthday of writer and poet Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982). Shalamov’s talented and revealing prose only saw the light of day six years after his death, when glasnost led to the publication of previously suppressed writers.
