The extraordinary yacht, named "Dilbar" after Usmanov's mother, extends over 500 feet and is equipped with the largest indoor swimming pool ever installed on a private vessel. The Department of Treasury estimates that the current value of Usmanov's yacht is approximately $735 million. Usmanov an...
His coaches drove him to grow and develop as a dancer, and came up with some great techniques to help him. His dancing was improved even further when his third coach forced him to think in the way a standing dancer did. Maxim says this is what helped his performance to look like ...
During the war and the first part of the revolution it was tenanted chiefly by officers, and owing to the idiocy of a few of these at the time of the first revolution in shooting at a perfectly friendly crowd of soldiers and sailors, who came there at first with no other object than ...
Moscow’s merchant elite came to play an ever larger role in municipal self-government, dominating the Six-Member Duma created in 1785. After the transfer of Russia’s capital to St. Petersburg in 1712, Moscow became the “second capital” of the empire, but it retained its previous ...
approach came as it faced new setbacks and tried to rework agreements in the region. Its troops left Chad and Niger, where they were no longer welcome. Still, the State Department said in a statement early this year that it wasn’t involved in the decision to establish Bancroft...
Lawmakers dragged their feet for months over the mobilization law, and it is expected to be unpopular. It comes about a week after Ukraine lowered the draft-eligible age for men from 27 to 25. The law will become effective a month after Zelenskyy signs it — and it’s unclear if and...
Konstantin Vaginov was an early and exemplary figure of Soviet modernist writing in all its agonized and glorious contradictions. Born into an educated middle-class family at the turn of the century, Vaginov came of age with the Bolshevik revolution. His novels of the late 1920s and early 193...
All this idea of climbing came with a passion about taking pictures. Few years ago they took a picture with their phone camera, they liked it and decided to buy a real camera. But why they just don’t take pictures of flowers and nature with feet on the ground? Too boring. ...
Cohen completes his analysis of Vladimir Putin’s inheritance and explains how he came to focus his thinking on “lost alternatives”-outcomes that could have been but were not. Most surprising to me was the real but foregone prospect of reforming the Soviet system such that the suffering that...
An elderly civilian man whose feet had to be amputated is helped in a wheelchair by a paramedic, amid Russia's invasion in Ukraine, in a hospital in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 6, 2022. Jorge Silva | Reuters Ukrainian soldier 'Jimmy' Slava who is recovering from an arm fractur...