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in private quality control. Meanwhile one of the most promising food-safety treatments for beef, irradiation, was banned by the FDA until this past November because of bogus concerns about its...

Russia Watch: Reform Follows Function (May 1997)

RUSSIA WATCH by Jonas Bernstein Reform Follows Function Can a totally corrupt system reform itself? Boris Yeltsin claims to think so—and has once again declared war on the mafia and...

Russia Watch: Against Chubais (December 1996)

"Russia Watch: Against Chubais" by Jonas Bernstein Against Chubais In October, outgoing U.S. ambassador Thomas Pickering gave a farewell speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow. He was...

Russia Watch: Not Yet the Worst (September 1996)

"Russia Watch: Not Yet the Worst" As long as you ignore Chechnya and the corruption....

Russia Watch: Lebed's Way (August 1996)

"Russia Watch: Lebed's Way" Lebed's Way He saved Boris Yeltsin-but at what price? I tt may be remembered as the hit of the season: during a climactic scene in Russia's political drama, a tough...

Russia Watch: Run, Gorby, Runt (July 1996)

"Russia Watch: Run, Gorby, Runt" by Jonas Bernstein Run, Gorby, Run! As far as I know, there is no clinical evidence that Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is suffering from a serious mental disturbance. Yet he really...

Russia Watch: Democracy Can Wait (June 1996)

"Russia Watch: Democracy Can Wait" by Jonas Bernstein Democracy Can Wait Boris Yeltsin's poll numbers have been going up lately—one recent survey commissioned by the Moscow Times...

Russia Watch: The Return of Big Red (March 1996)

"Russia Watch" by Jonas Bernstein The Return of Big Red Are the reforms in Russia irreversible? Western businessmen and economists want badly to believe that they are, and so do...

A Fistful of Rubles (January 1996)

"A Fistful of Rubles" In today's freewheeling Russia, business is always personal. So is the danger—corpses are piling u on the streets, and new "security" firms have hired almost everyone in the former...

Russia Watch / Stalin Grads (July 1995)

Moscow I n preparing for their commemoration of V-E day, the Russian authorities took no chances with Moscow's unpredictable spring weather. On May 8, the day before the official celebration, they...

Chechnya Watch / Shah Graves (May 1995)

Shali Graves by Jonas Bernstein B ouncing down a road on the outskirts of Nazran in a Russian jeep filled with four drunken Ingush teenagers (one of them at the wheel), and a reggae singer shouting...

Russian Presswatch /Is Boris Good Enough? (March 1995)

Is Boris Good Enough? H ow desperately the Clinton administration has clung to the mythical character called Boris the Democrat. Even as the Russian attack on Grozny began to resemble Hafez...

Russia Watch / Wake-Up Calls (October 1994)

Wake-Up Calls by Jonas Bernstein / was surprised to see Vladimir Zhirinovsky gracing the cover of Time recently. I thought that maybe the newspaper kiosk at the Intourist Hotel near Red Square was...

Russia Watch / Quiet Flow the Dons (June 1994)

Quiet Flow the Dons by Jonas Bernstein S t. Petersburg seemed even more decayed than in December, when I was last there. As the train approached the city, the landscape was post-nuclear—sprawling,...

Russia Watch (I) / Bardak Shadows (February 1994)

Bardak Shadows by Jonas Bernstein L ast summer, a reporter for the English-language Moscow Tribune witnessed the following incident: An elderly man, one of Moscow's legions of pensioners, was...

Moscow Bulletin / Bolshie Ballet (November 1993)

Bolshie Ballet by Jonas Bernstein As we go to press, Boris Yeltsin and his Communist parties among them, most in enemies from the dissolved Soviet parlia- this crowd are the kind who love...

The Moscow Spectator / A Land of Individualists (June 1993)

stood in front of the Intourist Hotel near Red Square, waiting for Olga. She was down from St. Petersburg for the day to pick up her visa for Britain, which she visits once a year. With her hard...

The Moscow Spectator/Horsing Around (March 1993)

Moscow, December 23 T he mosaic on the side of a build- ing across from Dobrinskaya metro station—where I catch a train each day to my job at Moscow News—proclaims "We Are Building Communism" to...

Georgia's Political Theater (March 1992)

Jonas Bernstein Georga s Political Theater An autocratic ex-dissident, a professor with a prison, record, and a charismatic hit man battle it out in Stalin's native land. politics in post-Soviet...

Bernstein, Mark F.

Bernstein, Paul

Bernstein, Richard

Bernstein, Robert

Berry, Kevin

Berry, Mary Frances

Berry, Wendell

Bersnak, Bracy

Bertram, Scot

Beschloss, Michael

Beschloss, Michael R.

Beston, Paul