Newsmax RSS FeedTue, 26 Feb 2013 15:44:03 EDTI recently saw an article posted on a website and couldn’t agree more with the author’s premise as some states — including my home state of New York — consider relaxing the laws with respect to late-term abortions.Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:40:42 EDT“Lev, this is Julie. Do you remember me?” The voice on the phone sounded familiar. She went on: “Almost 40 years ago, I believe the year was 1975, I went to see your play ‘Welcome to Soviet America!’ at Carnegie Hall. Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:50:12 EDTI was watching Fox News, when an image of President Barack Obama delivering a message flashed on the screen for a mere second. The clip was gone no sooner than it appeared, but it was enough for me to catch it: “I run not on what I have done, but on what I will do.” Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:28:29 EDTI am going to say something I know may not be popular with the readers. I spent half of my life in Stalin’s Russia. I was born there, got married there, and I never knew what the television set looks like.Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:36:58 EDTAm I to believe that I have wasted 40 years of my life in this country trying to explain the nature of dictatorship and what it meant to have been born and lived in Stalin’s paradise the first half of my life?Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:53:17 EDTI had no intention to voice my thoughts about the ongoing presidential race. But the constant telephone calls from my friends were so insistent that I decided to answer them in my column.Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:09:00 EDTThis is the title of an article by Yelena Sidorenko in the Russian newspaper Vzglyad: Delovaya Gazeta (“The View: the Business Newspaper”) of Aug. 15. Its subtitle reads: “For Almost a Month, Americans Failed to Detect Russian Submarine Near Its Shores.”Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:56:26 EDTEngland was our first love. Good Old England. There was no way for us who studied English to go and live there, which was our impossible dream. We got to learn so much about it from books and recordings. Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:26:27 EDTI was born in Moscow; I went to a Soviet school, where I discovered that there were things one should never mention in class. In particular, my parents told me never to reveal to my classmates any conversations we were having at home and never to discuss anything going on in our family. Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:13:39 EDTLet me remind my dear readers that I was born in 1928. As such, I was to live in Stalin’s hell on earth. Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:31:11 EDTAll Obama cares about is his desperate desire to win another four years of presidency, during which he will implement his socialist ideals and turn this country into a Soviet-style dictatorial paradise.Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:03:32 EDTIn 1972, my wife, our son, my mother, and I were on our way to the United States from Italy, where we had spent almost six months waiting for our American visas to be processed. Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:18:50 EDTI believe that Steve’s e-mail is important for the benefit of all those who believe or can be persuaded to believe that without freedom/liberty, a country is likely to become a country-wide prison, complete with torture chambers.Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:10:53 EDTIn one of my earlier columns, I tried to show that during his two terms as Russian president, Vladimir Putin's play at democracy was really a calculated, well-thought-out ploy.Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:32:21 EDTWhile surfing the Russian Internet the other day, I came upon the Snob site (www.snob.ru), an “international Russian-language media project, which was launched in 2008, with the aim to connect international and global audience of influential, high-net worth individuals.”Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:03:59 EDTBefore the 1917 revolution in Russia and for a while after it, no one paid attention to the meaning of the words involved, though the meanings of words are decisive — in thinking and its conclusions — incarnated in the words of the language of a given nation. Wed, 30 May 2012 12:49:02 EDTLast week we had a call from someone whom we hadn’t spoken with in some years: an intelligent young man, a brilliant computer specialist, with a keen interest in international affairs. He was particularly interested in Falun Gong persecutions in China. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:11:50 EDTFrom Moscow, the capital of the slave country founded in 1917, I came to New York, to the 21st floor of a skyscraper.Fri, 11 May 2012 10:32:41 EDTIt seems that quite recently things looked so promising in Russia. In my recent columns, I happily noticed that there are quite a few burgeoning signs of freedom in Russia that were impossible even to think of in my time: freedom of travel, freedom to leave the country, or start your own business. Fri, 04 May 2012 16:48:42 EDTOne of our family’s aims in coming out of Russia to the United States was to help Westerners understand Russia, from which the West was cut off for almost a century. The main source of information had been what Soviet propaganda was feeding them.