Word: leningrad
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...movie tells the story of Tatyana, an ordinary Aeroflot air hostess, who, between flights from her native Kaliningrad to Leningrad, falls in love with Alexander Alexandrovich Platov, an ordinary non-descript "lawyer" who soon gets a posting in Germany...
...that referendum but ultimately became a failed President, a point affirmed at the end of 1999 when he suddenly announced that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man from Leningrad and Yeltsin's Prime Minister, would take over. In the final, pathetic chapter, Yeltsin evidently agreed to vanish from the political scene as long as Putin didn't pursue corruption cases against him. Putin then undid much of what Yeltsin had accomplished--tolerance (usually) of a free press, for example--and began to mold a Russia that is stronger, surer of itself yet more like the unforgiving Soviet state. Russia...
Such visible hardening has increased speculation that a military coup might be in the offing. Some Western experts and even some Soviets argue that a de facto coup has taken place. The reactionaries were shocked when radicals took control of city councils in Moscow, Leningrad and Sverdlovsk and several republics began talking of secession. Those developments apparently mobilized the army and its allies in the giant military-industrial production network. After 46 representatives of eight defense-related ministries signed an open letter last September warning that new laws threatened to destroy the defense industry, Gorbachev changed course. He dropped...
...shores of the Caspian Sea which is at this point governed by Halliburton.” Shteyngart drew inspiration from his travels throughout the former Soviet Union, and in particular, by a place he visited in his childhood.“When I was growing up in Leningrad, we would go down to Georgia and to this town called Sukhumi, which felt like a Soviet Disneyland,” he said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Georgia and many other parts of the former Soviet Union collapsed into civil war after its dissolution, which prevented Shteyngart from returning...
...when the Russian Museum organized his personal exhibition - and crashed just weeks later in early 1930, when the authorities decided first not to open the exhibition to the public, and then to disband it altogether as undesirable. Filonov managed to present his works only twice more in collective Leningrad artists' exhibits. Then Communist Party authorities orchestrated a vicious press campaign depicting him as a hostile element to the ideals of the revolution. Filonov became a nonperson in a country less interested in "analytical art" than in the triumphant certainties of Socialist Realism...