Country struggles with its heritage, memory By MEGAN K. STACK • Los Angeles Times • November 8, 2009 MOSCOW -- When Russian businessman Yevgeny Ostrovsky decided to name his kebab joint Anti-Soviet Shashlik, he thought of it as...
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Whites versus Reds- Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Civil War After Red October overthrew the government that overthrew Tsarist Russia, the Bolsheviks ended up with the largest country in the world. The big argument among the...
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Glance at this week’s headlines from Russia, and it’s tempting to agree with Economist scribe Edward Lucas: It’s beginning to look a lot like Cold War Lite. Polish magazine Wprost broke the news of recent war game in which...