<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Eva Zeisel, Still Bringing Plenty to the Table]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10757-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10757-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eva Zeisel's ceramic designs are among the most sensual and vibrant of any manufactured in modern times.]]></description><author> Linda Hales</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Cites Yukos  In Moscow Talks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5104-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5104-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 20  --  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she "pretty pointedly" told Russian officials that the outcome of the criminal case against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky would affect prospects for business investment in Russia.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trends in Russia 'Very Worrying' to Rice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1069-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1069-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of state says Putin's efforts to amass power and control television broadcasts  have undermined Russian democracy.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinage Commission Director Kenneth M. Failor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64477-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64477-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kenneth Merle Failor, 95, a man who watched over the nation's nickels and dimes for many years as an official with the U.S. Mint, died March 26 at the Life Care Center in Scottsdale, Ariz. A resident of Rockville and Annapolis before moving to Scottsdale in 1991, he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Surprise Russian Landing in Manassas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57563-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57563-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As science  star Ricky Yezzi took the stage in the Osbourne Park High School auditorium yesterday morning, 400 of his schoolmates cheered and whistled as if he had just come home victorious from a big game. The shaggy-haired 18-year-old quelled the noise long enough to introduce his two new acquaintances: one of Russia's premier cosmonauts and a top Russian space scientist.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Russia, Sympathy and Suspicion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55210-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55210-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  MOSCOW  --  For Pavel Busalayev, a 43-year-old painter of religious icons, Pope John Paul II was "an extraordinary man: courageous, bright, full of Christian spirit." But ask Busalayev about the late pope's fervent wish to visit Russia, and whether the next pontiff might realize that goal, and he balks .]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Oil Tycoon's Trial Ends]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44182-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44182-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, April 11  --  Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Russian oil tycoon, made an impassioned speech on the last day of his politically tinged trial here Monday, blaming a "criminal bureaucracy" for jailing him and defiantly refusing to ask the court for leniency.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another Russian Revolution?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a country with a popular president, a growing economy and a fragmented and weak opposition, Russia does not seem ripe for revolt, but the Kremlin and its political opponents seem bewitched by the possibility of one.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third DeLay Trip Under Scrutiny]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28319-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28319-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith  and James V. Grimaldi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Promises More Help to Ukraine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush, celebrating the recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine as a "powerful example of democracy for people around the world," promised its visiting leader yesterday that he would help the former Soviet republic move closer to the West and eliminate decades-old trade barriers.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyrgyz President Prepared to Resign]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22841-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22841-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Askar Akayev has reached a deal with interim leaders to step down from office on Monday, a move seen as a significant step toward restoring stability in the country which has been torn by political crisis since late March.]]></description><author> Henry Meyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyrgyz President Appears In Russia, Talks of Quitting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9350-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9350-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, March 29  --  Askar Akayev, who disappeared when protesters overran his office last week, surfaced in Russia on Tuesday, saying he might resign the presidency if given legal protections. He held out the possibility of returning to Kyrgyzstan to talk things over.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warming Up to Packaging]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2612-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2612-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The end of communism was a messy affair, and Russians are still cleaning up after it. When price controls were dropped early in 1992, introducing elements of capitalism and consumer culture, a cold wind was blowing. Before you knew it, plastic grocery bags were hanging from the trees, aluminum soda bottles were crunching under foot and empty juice boxes were clogging the gutters.]]></description><author> Kathy Lally</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rampages Fuel Fear]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4009-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4009-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Every year, in huge numbers, Russians are beaten, tortured and sometimes killed by police, who have systematically failed to embrace the rule of law since the fall of the Soviet Union.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Risks Putin's Ire With Visits to Latvia, Georgia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64106-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64106-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush expanded his planned May trip to Moscow by adding stops in two former Soviet republics that have resisted Russian influence, an itinerary seen as a pointed message to President Vladimir Putin.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Town Swaps St. Nick for Santa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61509-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61509-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEMRE, Turkey  --  In the 4th century, a bishop named Nicholas was a local hero in this seaside town, living the kind of life that eventually led to sainthood. For most of the 16 centuries that followed, Saint Nicholas was known chiefly as the patron of sailors, barrel-makers, small children and Russians.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cops and Rompers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52565-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52565-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[      FLESH WOUNDS <br> By John Lawton<br>Atlantic Monthly. 343 pp. $23]]></description><author> Patrick Anderson,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[BULGARIA: Lost (and Found) in Translation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47371-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47371-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If I succeed in persuading you to give Bulgaria a try, you must carry a substantial phrasebook and remember this: In Bulgaria, when you want to signify that the answer is "yes," you shake your head back and forth. To signify "no," you nod your head up and down.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Enterpreneur Escapes Ambush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44953-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44953-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The man who led the post-Soviet sell-off of Russian industry, creating many enemies and a few billionaires in the process, survived an assassination attempt Thursday when a roadside bomb detonated near his armored BMW.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funds for Overseas Democracy Are Scarce]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45341-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45341-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/russia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The gap between rhetoric and resources has widened as the U.S. pumps substantial funding into the promotion of democracy in Muslim countries, but cuts budgets for groups elsewhere.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item></channel></rss>
