March 2, 2007
Russian Literature in the Age of Putin
Victor Erofeyev — chic in basic black, sipping a cappuccino, pack of Parliaments at the ready — stretches out in the 38th-floor bar of Taipei's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel against a backdrop of triumph over Communism.
Through the huge window behind him, the world's tallest building, "101," towers over the crowded capital of the country that's not quite a country, an enormous middle finger thrust at that other China to the west.
We may be smaller than we used to
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