Leonid Khrushchev died a war hero in 1943, 13 years before his father denounced Stalin. Now Russians are told he was a traitor. Peter Savodnik reports on the invisible campaign to defame the father with the invented sins of the son.
Russia, by Alex Majoli After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved.
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'Breach' tells the story of the infamous agent Robert Hanssen, who worked secretly for the Russians for decades.
]]>a look at life on the pro circuit at Olympic Gold medalists Russians Anton and Elena and Canadians Jamie and David, post-2002.