Is Yeltsin ‘The Man’?
We are all waiting for The Man Johnson’s Russia List, Monday, 12 Oct 1998 Waiting for the Man By Will Harte It is just after eight in the evening and already another bright fall day in Russia has slipped into darkness, lying down to await the lover she knows will…
Read MoreMurmansk – Brrrr!
You better bring a fur coat, and not to be stylish! The Independent (UK) 10 October 1998 Heroes Take Their Leave of the Arctic By Rupert Cornwell in Murmansk “Murmansk – Hero City” proclaims the faded concrete hoarding, fully six feet square, as you enter Russia’s great northern port. Like…
Read MoreTaganka 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…
Read MoreThese 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…
Read MoreIt’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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