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“Was the Tetris co-developer the victim of a Russian mob hit?” On Sept. 22, 1998, police were called to the Palo Alto, California, home of Vladimir Pokhilko. They discovered a gruesome scene: The Tetris co-developer was dead, his throat slit; he was still gripping the knife. His wife Yelena and their 12-year-old son Peter had…
“Think twice before you punish a ‘Russian’ over Putin’s horrible war” It’s a tough time to be Russian in America. Even if you’re not actually Russian. I was raised in Brooklyn’s Russian community, but nearly no one was really from Russia. Most are Jews from the former Soviet Union. I was born in Russia, but…
“#A young Chrystia Freeland impressed Soviet Russia’s KGB” Politics Insider for Oct. 12, 2021: The finance minister’s notable past; Premier François Legault’s power; and a Canadian Nobel prize winner Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox in the morning. The Globe…
“#Biden’s pick for Treasury post sought end to banking ‘as we know it’” President Biden’s controversial pick to be the Treasury Department’s comptroller of the currency is a USSR-born and educated professor who has praised the former Soviet Union’s lack of a gender pay gap while recently advocating for ending banking “as we know it”…
“#Truman’s airlift shows how bad Biden’s Afghan evacuation truly is” ‘This is now on track,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday, “to be the largest airlift in US history.” On the process of bringing American citizens, Afghan partners and allies out, she continued, “I would not say that is anything but a…
“#How a tunnel under the Berlin Wall saved people from Soviets” Joachim Rudolph never liked East Germany. He was 5 in 1945, when the Allies divided Germany in two after World War II — the West turned into a capitalist democracy, and his home in the East into a Soviet-ruled authoritarian state. Not long after,…
“#Soviet ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation found after 30 years” Eat your heart out, Peter Jackson. A long-lost Soviet television adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy has been unearthed after being lost for 30 years, the Guardian reports. Based on Tolkien’s first installment, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the 1991 film…
“#War-torn Ukrainian town considering changing name to New York” This hard-up town hopes it will have better luck by naming itself after New York City. Novhorodske is defined by its aging phenol factory, communist-era apartment blocks and an entire quadrant demarcated by the trenches dug through its deserted streets. The just-over-10,000-person settlement is woefully located…
“#Cancel culture is creating a Soviet-style society of liars” The public policy scholar Joseph Overton stated that an idea must fall within a certain range of acceptability to be politically viable. The Overton Window, as this concept has come to be known, describes the range of publicly palatable ideas at a given time, and it…