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Russia

First Person / October 2011

Editor’s Note

October 19, 2011April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

In September 1991, while working for CTV News, I found myself in Moscow shortly after the failed coup d’état that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was …

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April 2011 / Fiction

Rome, 1978

April 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

Samuil krasnansky looked out his window and saw Italian militia with their submachine guns lined up the length of the platform. He did not like being under foreign guard, but …

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November 2007 / World

With a Light Steam

November 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Jeff Parker

Getting sweaty with a Russian hulk

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Painting by Arnaqu Ashevak
November 2007 / World

God’s Dancing Lessons

November 12, 2007April 19, 2020 - by Peter Raymont

Notes on survival in Siberia

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December 2004/January 2005 / World

Midnight in Moscow

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Stephen Handelman

Russian President Vladimir Putin in his home, Novo-Ogaryovo. / Photograph by Dmitry Lekay/Kommersant moscow—When he’s in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin lives in a forested compound complete with stables and …

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Is the West Rearming Russia?
Feature / November/December 2003

Is the West Rearming Russia?

November 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by Paul Webster

Ottawa and the G-8 might be financing a new nuclear storehouse

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October 2003 / World

City of Lost Children

October 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by Paul Webster

Tracking the disappearence of Moscow’s young homeless

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