May 01, 2000 Dessert a la Tartar Kaymak with wafers is the tasty dessert treat offered in this issue. It is an ancient Tartar/Mongol dish of carmelized cream.
May 01, 2000 Boring Old Russia After a decade marked by coup attempts, parliament sieges, wildly optimistic economic programs, cabinet reshufflings and Caucasian wars, boring is good.
May 01, 2000 Russia's Boys of Summer Baseball is not something one immediately associates with Russia. And rightly so. Yet interesting things can happen in the most unlikely of places.
May 01, 2000 Chekhov Today Few writers have had as much impact on literature and drama as Anton Chekhov. And yet his legacy is largely ignored or overlooked.
May 01, 2000 Suvorov Russia's greatest military general, Alexander Suvorov, is little known outside his homeland, where his exploits are the stuff of legend.
May 01, 2000 Tyumen & Tobolsk: Siberian River Cities Many cities grew up along Siberia's rivers as Russia expanded eastward. Here we look at two very provincial cities as part of our six part journey East Across Siberia. Travel
March 15, 2000 String of Pearls Russia and Japan have yet to sign a WWII peace treaty. At the center of the dispute are four ancient volcanic islands, part of the Kuril Islands help by Russia and known to Japan as the Northern Territory. History Int'l Relations Regions Russia File
