Word: leningrad
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...graduated with a law degree from Leningrad State University. He remained at the institution to complete a doctorate in private, corporate and securities law and taught civil law concurrently...
...year-old was born on Sept. 14, 1965, in Leningrad (now known as St. Petersburg), the only child of two university professors...
...Medvedev's personality was shaped under Putin's strong influence, and he worships Putin like a father figure, or at least like an older brother." - Valery Musin, Medvedev's former academic adviser and law professor at Leningrad State University (the Moscow Times...
...Gelsey Kirkland, Americans have long since stopped regarding ballerinas as imports. But this year the headlines have been captured by three young foreigners. A major factor in American Ballet Theatre's most successful season in years is Italy's Alessandra Ferri, 23, an ethereal, hugely gifted dramatic dancer. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, which has just finished its first North American tour in 22 years, is full of talent, but the great ovations have gone to Altynai Asylmuratova, 25, an exotic beauty blessed with a perfect line and the more elusive qualities of gentle lyricism and knockout sexual allure. Still...
...reverse the motor. The machines of Russian sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, by contrast, are better read as manifestations of the troubled artist's state of mind. Now living in Glasgow, where his works are shown as a theatrical installation called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured his sarcasm and frustration at the Soviet Union's dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures...