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The Schmooze Brigitte Bardot Wants Russian Passport, Too
Former French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot on Friday threatened to follow Gerard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes, but at the treatment of two circus elephants. The animals, named Baby and Nepal and owned by a touring circus, are thought to be carrying tuberculosis and were ordered to…
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Opinion Hidden Victims of Russia’s Adoption Ban
I used to see them fairly often in airports, nicer hotels or restaurants. Living in Eastern Europe, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine and later working for a non-profit in Russia, I’d become adept at spotting other Americans in public. I sized them up, taking into account the color and style of their…
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Fast Forward Gerard Depardieu Gets Passport From Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to Gerard Depardieu, the French movie star who is quitting his homeland to avoid a tax hike on the rich, the Kremlin said on Thursday. The “Cyrano de Bergerac” actor bought a house across the border in Belgium last year to avoid a new tax rate for millionaires…
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Life How Russia’s Adoption Ban Hurts Jews
On December 28, Russia legally banned the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens. President Vladimir Putin signed the controversial legislation (which takes effect on January 1, 2012) following its approval by the upper house of the Russian parliament earlier last week. The ban is part of a package of retaliatory measures against the Magnitsky…
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Fast Forward Russian Parliament Approves Ban on American Adoptions
Russia’s upper parliament house unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would ban Americans from adopting Russian children, in retaliation for a U.S. law that punishes Russians accused of human rights violations. The bill, which President Vladimir Putin has hinted he will sign, would also outlaw some U.S.-funded non-governmental organisations and impose visa bans and…
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Fast Forward Senate Repeals Jackson-Vanik Amednment
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation to punish Russian human rights violators as part of a broader bill to expand U.S. trade with Washington’s former Cold War enemy. Passage of the bill, by a 92-4 vote, drew an immediate angry response from Moscow, which had been warning that the human rights provisions would damage…
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Fast Forward Yasser Arafat’s Body Will Be Exhumed
The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday. A French court opened a murder inquiry in August into Arafat’s death in Paris after a Swiss institute said it had discovered…
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Fast Forward Vladimir Putin Accuses Pussy Riot of Anti-Semitism
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused a member of the punk protest band Pussy Riot of having committed an anti-Semitic act. During a televised discussion on Nov. 15 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow, Putin said that one of the members of the band had “hanged a dummy of a Jew and said that…
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