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Rebel Artist Recalls Historic Fight

Posted on August 4, 2011 | No Comments
Photos by Hallie Golden “We moved into this house with the world collapsing around us,” Aslangery Uyanayev, an impressionist artist, said of a once-abandoned building in St. Petersburg, Russia. The...
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Americans Overweight And Ignorant? Not Always

Posted on July 31, 2011 | No Comments
Self-centered, antisocial and willfully ignorant about world affairs? That is how many Russians, interviewed over the past week, described ordinary Americans. They also said they thought Americans were superficial and...
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Film “Inside Job” Ignites Debate About Russian Corruption

Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments
A recent showing of the Oscar-winning documentary “Inside Job” at a St. Petersburg University international summer program sparked an intense debate between the Russians in attendance about their own system...
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Tortured History Influence Russian Journalists’ Debate on Free Speech

Posted on July 16, 2011 | No Comments
Russian banking reporter Ana Keampets often receives threats on her life from the powerful men she covers. And she has one of the safer beats in St. Petersburg. “I’ve gotten...
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