Keren Blankfeld, 9/24/10 He left the Soviet Union in 1973 as Temur Sepiashvili, a 26-year-old Russian who ended up driving a taxicab in Manhattan to make ends meet. His life soon became the stuff of American dreams. He changed his last name to Sapir and built a real estate business in New York that gave […]
By Larry Greenemeier on August 18, 2008 With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. In their rush to avoid a repeat of the controversy that plagued the 2000 presidential election, and to meet the requirements […]
By Michael Idov Published Mar 30, 2008 It’s a 46-story skyscraper being built on a graveyard that’s brought together shadowy Russians and a billionaire brand name to attract internationals in a zoning-skirting scheme that’s enraged the neighborhood, sent glass shattering to the street, and killed a construction worker. It’s New York in the aughts, and inside […]
By CHARLES V. BAGLI DEC. 17, 2007 It is a classic tale of reinvention, American style. Born in the Soviet Union in 1966, Felix H. Sater immigrated with his family to Brighton Beach when he was 8 years old. At 24 he was a successful Wall Street broker, at 27 he was in prison after a bloody […]
Heidi Brown Nathan Vardi 3/28/2005 @ 12:00 AM Alex Shnaider became a billionaire in the dimly lit steel mills of eastern Europe. How will he handle the glare of the Western world? Alexander Shnaider was relaxing on a recent winter morning with his wife and three young daughters on his 170-foot Benetti yacht in a […]
By David Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, January 30, 2000 DRESDEN, Germany – In the gray villa at No. 4 Angelikastrasse here, perched on a hill overlooking the Elbe River, a young major in the Soviet secret police spent the last half of the 1980s recruiting people to spy on the West. Vladimir Putin looked for […]