February 01, 1999 The Way Things Should Not Be The political ramifications of the US bombing of Iraq, in the midst of an impeachment scandal.
February 01, 1999 February and March in History Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this issue.
February 01, 1999 Kasha to Take Your Troubles Away This dessert – Gurievskaya kasha – is a true treasure of Russian cuisine. Make it for a loved one and you are sure to score big.
February 01, 1999 Lie down with the dogs ... Animal lingo in Russian, from what every dog knows to how to live with the wolves...
February 01, 1999 The Death of Veezeer-Mukhtar An excerpt from Tynyanov's historical fiction which profiled the death of writer and diplomat Alexander Griboyedov. Fiction
February 01, 1999 Yuri Olesha: A Talent to Be Envied Yuri Karlovich Olesha was born 100 years ago in Elizavetgrad (Kirovograd), then in Russia, now part of Ukraine, to a middle-class Polish family.
February 01, 1999 All's Fair in Party Warfare Stalin "thanked" Leningrad for its heroic survival of WWII by subjecting it to a massive purge in 1949. Only today, fifty years later, are all the details becoming clear.
January 01, 1999 Crisis Russian This column was spurred on the by the devaluation crisis of August 1998. It includes lots of useful bureaucratic language and other neologisms from the crisis era.
