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  • April 2008

    • Ex-Soviet Monkeys Survive 15-Year Limbo

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 12, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Ex-Soviet Monkeys Survive 15-Year Limbo

      (Newser) - Traumatized monkeys once the subjects of Soviet experiments are odd remnants of a more prosperous time in Abkhazia, an area of Georgia that calls itself independent, the Los Angeles Times reports. The area was crippled in its effort to break away from Georgia, but the 286 primates living in a research institute remain a point of pride for residents. More »

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      Georgia  • science  • research  • Soviet Union  • independence  • monkey  • former Soviet state  • USSR

  • December 2007

    • Belarus Merger Could Return Putin to Office

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Dec 10, 07 1:47 PM CST

      Belarus Merger Could Return Putin to Office

      (Newser) - Vladimir Putin may release a secret weapon this week: a Russian political union with neighboring Belarus that could extend his leadership indefinitely. As the ex-KGB operative’s presidential terms run out, observers look to a merger of nations—including currency, legal system, and armed forces—as an opportunity for a new constitution allowing Putin to be provisional leader of the merged states, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

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      Vladimir Putin  • constitution  • KGB  • Belarus  • USSR

  • September 2007

    • KGB Doggedly Stalked Nureyev

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 19, 07 8:47 PM CDT

      KGB Doggedly Stalked Nureyev

      (Newser) - He was never interested in politics, but Rudolf Nureyev was a KGB scourge for decades after his 1961 defection. The famed ballet dancer’s colleagues were glad to see him go—‘Rudik’ was a prima donna to management and competition for fellow performers—but the state was incensed, the Telegraph reports, excising him from history books and plotting to break his legs. More »

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      Russia  • KGB  • USSR  • ballet  • defection

  • April 2007

    • Rostropovich Dead at 80

      Washington Post  |  Apr 27, 07 2:23 PM CDT

      Rostropovich Dead at 80

      (Newser) - Cellist, conductor, and one-time Soviet gadfly Mstislav Rostropovich, who used to instruct his orchestras to "play as if you are being tickled in the sides," died today in Moscow. Rostropovich, whose 17-year-run as the head of the National Symphony Orchestra tranformed it from a middling ensemble to one of the world's premier orchestras, was 80. More »

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      music  • obituary  • classical music  • composer  • USSR

    • Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 23, 07 12:50 PM CDT

      Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit

      (Newser) - Nostalgia for the good old days of the USSR is in—at least for Russian art collectors. These days, communist-inspired paintings of peasant scenes and heroic workers have acquired a uniquely capitalist hipness. "The art was propaganda of happiness," says Yuri Tyukhtin, a banker who runs an art gallery and likes the monumentality of the work. More »

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      Russia  • art  • propaganda  • capitalism  • communism  • art collector  • collecting  • USSR  • Soviet

    • Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76

      BBC  |  Apr 23, 07 10:17 AM CDT

      Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76

      (Newser) - Boris Yeltsin, who orchestrated Russia's uneasy transition to democracy, died this morning, according to the Kremlin. He was 76. The cause hasn't been released, but Russia's first democratically elected leader had a history of heart problems. Yeltsin ascended to power after a struggle with reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, who finally ceded in November of 1991. More »

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      Russia  • obituary  • death  • democracy  • Mikhail Gorbachev  • Chechnya  • USSR  • Boris Yeltsin

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