“Reports had long held that Bykov had backed Lebed with funds, hoping for a cozy relationship. But the enmity, the aide said, had run deep from the start. When Lebed arrived in town to assume the governorship, Bykov had come… — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“I knew we were going to pass one of the Soviet Union’s most secret atomic sites, the subterranean labyrinth code-named Krasnoyarsk-26, once one of… — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just ‘divide and conquer,’” said Kazikhanov. “It was ‘divide, conquer, and tie up in trouble.” — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“Reports had long held that Bykov had backed Lebed with funds, hoping for a cozy relationship. But the enmity, the aide said, had run… — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.” — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“More than one Moscow banker told me of the day when the Russians entered the Champagne Wars. The music was blaring, and the girls… — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
“He squatted on his haunches, and I joined him. Muscovites, with the insistent air of urbane sophisticates, like to note that the pose is… — Andrew Meier Copy Share Image
