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1) The Italian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren...
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Series
Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
501 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Swashbuckling counter spy Alex Hawke is the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the madness created by the new Russia and its new Tsar, who is pulling strings and pulling them hard.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Chronicles the attempts of a young Russian filmmaker to portray Catherine the Great, both before and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in projects that elude his ideas of the larger-than-life historical figure.
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Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
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When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance?"--
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Series
John Corey novels volume 7
Description
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess starts acting suspiciously, and an old,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com.
A reaHife political thriller about an American-born financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the people responsible in the Kremlin. Bill Browder started out his...
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Jason Bourne series volume 13
Description
On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov was willing to betray his Sovereign to warn Bourne of a crippling disaster about to be visited on the world. Bourne has only four days to discover the nature...
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Series
Anna Resnikov novels volume 2
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Description
Ex-KGB colonel Anna heads to America, where she is sought out by Adrian, the former boss of her deceased, ex-spy husband, who wants answers and information that only she possesses.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Description
"With fifty thousand Russian troops poised to invade a NATO nation, can Jack Ryan move swiftly enough to stop [Russian president Valeri] Volodin's grand plan of global conflict and conquest?"--Book jacket.
15) Red to black
Author
Series
Anna Resnikov novels volume 1
Formats
Description
In a resurgent Russia fueled by oil money and run by a corrupt oligarchy, a beautiful and brilliant KGB colonel, Anna, and her British counterpart in the MI6, Finn, are caught in a precarious secret mission to uncover the deadly threat a possible new Russian empire poses to the world.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
The five-time Grand Slam winner recounts how her father relocated her at the age of seven from their native Russia to the U.S. to develop her tennis talents before she embarked on a record-setting career.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2004, c1992
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (8 hrs., 18 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a brief history of the founding of St. Petersburg and a biographical sketch of Peter the Great, the viewer is taken on a tour of the galleries of the Hermitage Museum housing masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 20th Century.
19) The searcher
Author
Series
Ben Webster novels volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic madness of Russia and Georgia's deadly covert conflict, in this rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry. The acclaimed author of The Silent Oligarch and The Jackal's Share, Christopher Morgan Jones returns to a murky world where corporate spies and government agents battle far from the public eye. Focusing on Georgia--a mountainous republic threatened by Russia to the north--Morgan Jones carries readers...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity, and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil." --publisher's website
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