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- Raffi Khatchadourian: The Stolen Forests
- Inside the covert war on illegal logging.
- 2009-07-28 to bestof, biology, biosphere, business, china, crime, global warming, globalisation, greed, mafia, organized crime, russia, smuggling, walmart by soobrosa
- David Remnick: Echo in the Dark
- A radio station in Moscow strives to keep the airwaves free.
- 2008-10-28 to media, politics, russia by soobrosa
- David Kushner: Going to Space? First Stop - Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City
- Welcome to Star City, Russia, the tiny town where cosmonauts have trained since the 1960s. Today, clients of Space Adventures should expect to spend about eight months here (after forking over millions of dollars) to learn the ropes before blastoff.
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, russia, space, tourism, travel by soobrosa
- David Remnick: Boundary Issues
- But Putin also knows that Russia cannot bear the cost of reconstituting empire or the gulag. It depends on the West as a market.
- 2008-09-07 to bestof, politics, putin, russia by soobrosa
- Viv Groskop meets Russian heiress, fashion designer and socialite Dasha Zhukova |
- Russian heiress, fashion designer and socialite Dasha Zhukova is best known as the girlfriend of Roman Abramovich. Now she is out to make her mark on the international art scene (even though she can't name a single artist she likes). Can she turn her new
- 2008-08-27 to arts, bestof, design, russia by bagoly
- Yasha Levine: Blogger Gorshkov Will Dish Dirt on Russian Politicians — for a Price
- Sergey Gorshkov says he's in it for the money, not the politics.
- 2008-08-04 to bestof, blog, gossip, media, politics, russia by soobrosa
- Book extract: Misha Glenny on how the fall of the USSR spawned a new mafia
- In one of two exclusive extracts from his book on organised crime, a leading writer reveals how the fall of the USSR spawned a new mafia, which is alive and well and working in the UK.
- 2008-04-22 to bestof, crime, mafia, organised, russia, uk by soobrosa
- James Meek: The story of borshch
- It's just a bowl of beetroot and cabbage in meat stock. But it was the common denominator of the Soviet kitchen. So what happened to the dish after the collapse of the Union?
- 2008-04-22 to beetroot, bestof, borsch, food, history, russia, soup, ukraine by soobrosa
- The meaning of Norilsk
- How a takeover battle provides a test case for Russian capitalism
- 2008-04-09 to business, metal, russia by soobrosa
- Mark Amesc: The Kremlin’s Clan Warfare: The Putin Era Ends It's The End Of The Putin Era As We Know It...
- Something big is happening in the world of Russian power. And it ain't pretty.
- 2008-01-22 to bestof, poitics, power, russia by soobrosa
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