THE UNIFIED OIL EXCHANGE IN ST. PETERSBURG

A City of Many Contrasts Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia By W. Bruce Lincoln Basic Books. 419 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty" ON A rainy evening in October 1986, I arrived in Leningrad ......

HEADNOTE INTRA offers unigue tour between Russia's Moscow and St. Petersburg There is perhaps no more interesting time than the present to visit Russia as this complex nation awakens after decade's of communist slumber. Moscow and St. Petersburg, now bursting with enterprise under the freedoms of a new market driven ......

HEADNOTE Social change brings about discursive change. Particularly, it causes shifts of meaning within the key concepts of social discourse. The concept of dengi (money) has undergone fundamental alteration in Russian language and culture since perestroika. This conceptual change will be discussed in the following article. My findings are based ......

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HEADNOTE Democracy and Economic Reform IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Opposite: A worker updates the exchange rate at a St. Petersburg office. Since 1990, Russia has averaged a negative growth rate. Above: Workers in Kazakhstan, which has relied on slow but steady economic growth, build a high-rise in the capital. At the ......