March 01, 2002 Animal Instincts What does a rooster say in Russian? How about a pig or a horse? It's all here in this issue's Survival Russian.
January 01, 2002 100 Young Russians to Watch This is the seventh article in our series: 100 Young Russians to Watch. In this issue we present twelve notable individuals—from doctors and an activist, to athletes, businesspeople and a ballerina ... All personify the sort of excellence and hope which embody a positive Russian future.
January 01, 2002 Looking Back The US-Russian (nee Soviet) Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty has been cast onto the dustheap of history with scarcely a whimper from the Russian side. As with many things, what seemed unlikely six months ago has all of a sudden become unavoidable.
January 01, 2002 Duck Devil and Little Wolf It's not every day one is invited on a pilgrimage by a Siberian shaman. Which is how Christine Seashore and John Turk ended up roaming Kamchatka's frozen tundra in search of an elusive pack of reindeer. Oh, and then there is the interesting bit about the mountain bikes...
January 01, 2002 Liberty We look back on the first decade of a Free Russia with this Literary Excerpt from Mikhail Butov's award-winning novel, Liberty. Butov offers a poignant and humorous portrait of his generation's coming of age after the collapse of the Soviet empire. Fiction
January 01, 2002 Vodka in the Berkshires For the first time, the annual Russian Life Vodka Taste Off and Taste of Russia Dinner was held outside of Vermont, in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. A sumptuous feast, a friendly crowd, and a fortuitous evening snowstorm turned the early December event into a weekend to remember.
January 01, 2002 Russia's Olympic Hopefuls A brief look at Russia's brightest hopes for Olympic Gold in Salt Lake City this winter.
January 01, 2002 A Farewell to Shock Therapy A look back at the reforms of the past decade, on the tenth anniversary of "shock therapy."
January 01, 2002 A Rollicking Good Holiday Chicken This ornate chicken dish, Kurnik Zalikhvatsky, is a once a year type of dish. But one you'll remember all year round.