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| March 16, 10:00 AM Will Joseph Kobzon, Famed Soviet Crooner, Be Denied a U.S. Visa, Again? by Tatyana Bokova-FoleyIosif Kobzon, Russia’s Frank Sinatra, is sitting in his office in one of the famed Stalin’s skyscrapers downtown Moscow. While in his seventies, impeccably dressed Kobzon is still a politician, a performer, and a philanthropist. And he is still banned from entering the United States. |
| December 28, 12:00 AM How Some KGB Oldtimers Tried to Bump Off a Visa Businessby Tatyana Bokova-Foley | December 20, 9:40 PM Luxury Prison Cells Are Illegal, Apparentlyby Tatyana Bokova-Foley | May 31, 6:00 PM The Un-Oligarchical Alexander Lebedevby Russia! Staff | | Retired secret service agents attempt raid on VFS Global. Raid attempt is foiled. | This country has a knack for luxury. Several corrections officers were discharged in the Russian city if Volgograd for allegedly setting up 'VIP prison cells' — a five-star accommodation for wealthy mugs and senior mafia bosses. | Alexander Lebedev – the billionaire owner of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and Britain’s The Independent – is leaving business for politics because he has grown tired of battling corrupt officials. |
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| June 1, 2:00 PM Unfortunate Road Situation, Slavic Styleby Russia! Staff | November 2, 6:00 AM Ecological Activist Yevgenia Chirikova Seeks Support in the US, Unable to Find It in Russiaby Tatyana Bokova-Foley | June 1, 9:00 AM Russia’s Supply of iPad 2 Sells Out in Two Daysby Russia! Staff | | Most of those who drove in Russia know that the quality of roads in this country is so terrible that it’s not even funny. But you, the reader, should review the following images — and next time you hear your cab driver speaking Russian — just sit back and relax: the driver knows what he is doing. | Unable to find support at home, well-known Russian human rights and ecological activist Yevgenia Chirikova, who led the revolt in Moscow against the clear-cutting of the Khimki forest, is trying to get help in the U.S. | Two days — that’s how long it took to sell out the 10,000-unit supply of the newest Apple tablets in Russia after the iPad 2 went on sale here, several months after it became available in the US. |
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