Archive for August, 2011

Atlantic Yards Report: A protest at MetroTech and questions about subsidies

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

In a demonstration yesterday outside J.P. Morgan Chase at MetroTech, featuring an in-character “Mr. Moneybags” and the “mic check” rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street, organizers from ALIGN: The Alliance for 
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Atlantic Yards Report: One year later, rethinking the Prokhorov-sponsored “Global Russian” phenomenon

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Journalist/editor W.P. Norton, inRediscovering Russian America (also published on the website of the Institute of Modern Russia), questions the term Global Russians, associated with the orbit of billionaire entrepreneur/Nets owner Mikhail 
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