Taganka Hides Her Secrects

And you though you’d seen all of the metro! This is a good thing to know about since I live right next to Taganka Square… Moskovskiy Komsomolets 6 October 1998 “Taganka May Collapse Under the Ground: The End of the World in One Square” Yuliya Kalinina reports: We live in…

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These are Communists

What’s left of the Russian Communist Party Oh that Red Horde, the Communists! The eternal Russian bogeyman these days is the Communists threat. Well its the bogeyman for the majority of Muscovites, for this city would shrivel up and die if they took over. In the provinces however, the Reds…

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It’s a Power Vaccum

There is a serious power vaccum in Russia Johnson Russia List, Tuesday, 06 Oct 1998 The Throne is Empty. Who’s Next in Line? By Elena Sokova My daughter goes to a private Moscow school. We chose this school because of the reasonable tuition and the classical Russian educational standards. Another…

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The Commies are Back

Its time to break out the Lenin portraits again! The Reds are on the rise No, it’s not the commies We like music, not government We want to party! The Great Russian bogeyman is back, the Communist Party, or so it hopes. The leader of the party, Gennadiy Zyuganov, called…

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Propaganda is Good for You

The place to be on a Saturday night! Johnson’s Russia List, October 5, 1998 Russia’s Youth Dance Away Crisis By Nick Wadhams Moscow AP At the Propaganda dance club, manager Masha Maslyukova watched calmly as her harried bouncers held back a line of young people pushing and shoving to get…

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