About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...

KNOXVILLE, TN (WATE) — Kristina Kushnir was born in 1971 in the deep colds of Siberia in the far east of the USSR. The city was called Magadan, a “sister city” to Anchorage, Alaska, just 2,000 miles ...