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...channel's feed to a dozen provinces outside Moscow; the move would strip TV-6 of millions of viewers. Both TNT and TV-6 also rely on local television companies to carry their programming. The Kremlin allegedly has ordered local firms not to cooperate with either channel. Says Oleg Panfilov, a director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations: "Once all the media in the provinces and the capital are subdued, Putin will have total control of the entire information space...
Eventually she found her way to Oleg Cassini, a French-born Russian turned naturalized American and a onetime Hollywood costume designer. Cassini gave her Americanized versions of French designs, clean lined, in the bright, solid colors she preferred, but with oversize buttons and coat pockets that his Hollywood experience told him would stand out in photographs. She also patronized American clothiers who made licensed copies of French fashions. The red wool dress she wore for her television tour of the White House in 1962 was a line-for-line replica of a Marc Bohan dress for Dior. All the while...
...offers a pair of Eastern European criminals, a psycho killer (Karel Roden) and a psycho cameraman (Oleg Taktarov) who goofily wants to become an auteur like Frank Capra. Just how his video record of their crime spree, which includes spectacular arson as well as murder, will help him achieve that goal is the great mystery of his derangement. His tapes are of interest to Kelsey Grammer, playing the cynical host of a tabloid TV show, and they may be the key to an insanity plea that will help the pair cash in after they are caught...
...influential member of the Duma. He is known as the Russian Sinatra both for his talent and for his alleged Mafia ties. But he will not be singing in the United States: last month the U.S. embassy in Moscow turned down his visa application for the third time. Oleg Deripaska, head of the giant firm Russian Aluminum, did not attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week; the group withdrew its invitation after a fellow businessman filed a lawsuit accusing him of bribery and racketeering. Sergei Mikhailov, an entrepreneur who spent a little over two years...
...take a bus for 45 minutes and then walk eight blocks. I was going to school, I was working an after-school job to help out the family, I was studying English. It was all too much." Lenny wanted to quit the sport. Oleg wouldn't listen. Swimming was important. Why had Oleg packed five bags and left everything else behind when the doors at last were opened for Jewish families to emigrate from the U.S.S.R? He had done it for his children. Swimming was going to be Lenny's ticket to acceptance, success. Wasn't America the home...