ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
After Alexander Solzhenitsyn's death in August, President Dmitri Medvedev named a street in Moscow after the Nobel laureate as a tribute. Now residents, along with Soviet nostalgists, are campaigning to get back the thoroughfare's old name - Big Communist Street....
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes...we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on August 3, 2008, would have turned 90 on December 11. The following is written in his memory by W. George Krasnow . No one did as much to promote liberty in Russia as Alexander Solzhenitsyn. And few did more than he to strengthen the West, intellectually and morally, in its resistance against Soviet expansion. One of the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
It had seemed an appropriate memorial. In August Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, named a street in Moscow after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, shortly after the writer's death at the age of 89. But the residents of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Street have other ideas. Locals have waged a furious campaign against the name change, demanding the street revert to its old name of Big Communist...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
Russia 's president, Dmitry Medvedev, named a street in Moscow after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, shortly after the writer's death at the age of 89. But the residents of
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
It had seemed an appropriate memorial. In August, Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev decided to name a street in Moscow after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, shortly after the writer's death aged 89. But the residents of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street - as it is now known - appear to have other ideas. Together with Russia's communists, locals have waged a furious campaign against...
Russia Blog (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on August 3, 2008, would have turned 90 on December 11. The following is written in his memory by W. George Krasnow. No one did as much to promote liberty in Russia as Alexander...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
On December 11 Alexander Solzhenitsyn would have marked his 90th birthday. To commemorate the writer’s jubilee, his official website will be launched. Also, the Taganka Theatre is staging Alexander ...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Four months after Alexander Solzhenitsyn's death, Russia celebrated the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 90th birthday, launching a Web site on his life and work. Solzhenitsyn, known for his works about Stalin-era labor camps, returned to his native country after the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition to the start-up of the Russian-language Web site Thursday,...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Four months after Alexander Solzhenitsyn's death, Russia celebrated the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 90th birthday, launching a Web site on his life and work.Solzhenitsyn, known for his works about Stalin-era labor camps, returned to his native country after the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition to the start-up of the Russian-language Web site Thursday, three MP3s of Solzhenitsyn...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Russian writer, publicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born 90 years ago, on December 11, 1918.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
A man walking down the renamed Ulitsa Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Thursday, the 90th anniversary of the writer's birth. Residents and firms are complaining that the name change is costing them time and ...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
MOSCOW, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia marked on Thursday what would have been the 90th birthday of Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with a series of event...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Moscow - An internet site launched Thursday about the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, four months after his death. The author's widow, Natalia, launched the Russian-language site on the day Solzhenitsyn, who died A...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Moscow - An internet site launched Thursday about the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, four months after his death. The author's widow, Natalia, launched the Russian-language site on the day Solzhenitsyn, who died A...
