GEORGIA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION, MARCH 31, 1991

GEORGIA 

DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

FROM THE SOVIET UNION

MARCH 31, 1991

(the Soviet Union continues for another nine months) 

Tbilisi Old Town, USSR 1984 

Part of the distinctive look of Georgia 

FAREWELL AT THE RAILWAY STATION... IN GERMANY... BACK IN THE DAY

WAVING FAREWELL

AT THE

RAILWAY STATION

IN GERMANY

BACK IN THE DAYS

OF THE COLD WAR

JUVENILIA

DESCENT INTO THE MOSCOW METRO

DESCENT

INTO

THE METRO

MOSCOW SUBWAY

NEAR RED SQUARE

OPPOSITE THE NATIONAL HOTEL

(INTOURIST HOTEL TO THE RIGHT)

BACK IN THE USSR

1984

DUTCH PAIR: MORE JUVENILIA

MORE JUVENILIA

DUTCH PAIR

THE PUTINS AT THE HEIGHTS

THE PUTINS AT THE HEIGHTS

HALF-A-DOZEN YEARS LATER

(see previous post, March 26, 2010)

VLADIMIR & LYUDMILA PUTIN

HOSTING A DINNER

FOR THE G-8

AT THE PETERHOF PALACE

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

TEN YEARS ON: A DECADE SINCE VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

TEN YEARS ON

A DECADE SINCE

PUTIN WAS FIRST ELECTED

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

VLADIMIR PUTIN EMERGES

FROM VOTING IN

THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,

MOSCOW, MARCH 26, 2000.

ON THE LEFT IS HIS WIFE,

LYUDMILA PUTINA.

THE SACRED WAY TO THE MING TOMBS, NANJING, CHINA

THE SACRED WAY

TO THE

MING TOMBS

NANJING, CHINA

1981

"HERE BE GIANTS"

THE DOMES OF ST. BASIL'S, MOSCOW

TWO HISTORIC CHURCHES IN

RUSSIA'S "TWO CAPITALS"

MOSCOW &

ST. PETERSBURG

ST. BASIL'S CATHEDRAL

RED SQUARE, MOSCOW

THE CHURCH ON

SPILLED BLOOD (here),

in ST. PETERSBURG

is

"MORE LIKE ST. BASIL'S IN MOSCOW

THAN ST. ISAAC'S IN ST. PETERSBURG"

CHILDREN AT SCHOOL: CHINA THEN & NOW

CHINA THEN & NOW

CHILDREN AT SCHOOL

TWO GIRLS IN KINDERGARTEN

PLAY AT BEING DOCTORS

NANJING, CHINA, 1981

A MAN DESCRIBED AS BEING A

"FORMER DOCTOR AT A COMMUNITY CLINIC"

STABS AND STABS

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

KILLING AT LEAST EIGHT

NANPING (FUJIAN PROVINCE)

CHINA, 2010

MAN WITH A CANE, XI'AN, CHINA, 1981: ANOTHER FAVORITE (STREET) PORTRAIT

ANOTHER FAVORITE

PORTRAIT

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

DIVISION

MAN WITH A CANE

Xi'an, China, 1981

CHINA THEN & NOW

HERE BE GIANTS

KLAVDIA YELTSIN (THE MOTHER OF BORIS YELTSIN) d. 1993

KLAVDIA YELTSIN

THE MOTHER

OF BORIS YELTSIN

d. March 21, 1993 (85 y. o.)

AT HOME IN SVERDLOVSK

(YEKATERINBURG), RUSSIA (USSR) 1991

HER SON, BORIS YELTSIN, WAS

THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

THE SILK ROAD V: THE SHEPHERD BOY TENDS HIS FLOCK IN BUKHARA (UZBEKISTAN)

ON THE SILK ROAD

BUKHARA

UZBEKISTAN

THE SHEPHERD BOY

TENDS HIS FLOCK

BACK IN THE USSR

HERE BE GIANTS

OBAMA-CLINTON: THE NEW YORK TIMES DECIDES AN ARTICLE IS CALLED FOR: "After a Bitter Campaign, Forging an Alliance"

OBAMA-CLINTON

THE NEW YORK TIMES

DECIDES AN ARTICLE IS CALLED FOR

"After a Bitter Campaign, Forging an Alliance"

BARRACK OBAMA

&

HILLARY CLINTON

IN

UNITY

(NEW HAMPSHIRE)

JOHN UPDIKE b. March 18, 1932

JOHN UPDIKE

March 18, 1932-January 27, 2009

UPDIKE AT HOME

ON LABOR-IN-VAIN ROAD

IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS

When "I broke my foot so I grew a beard"

More to be found here

MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY vs. VLADIMIR PUTIN

KHODORKOVSKY

vs.

PUTIN

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

In His Heyday

THE PRISONER

TAKES ON

THE PRIME MINISTER

"VOTE WEAKENS PUTIN'S PARTY," SCREAMS THE HEADLINE

"VOTE WEAKENS

PUTIN'S PARTY,"

SCREAMS THE HEADLINE

Vladimir Putin

OR DOES IT?

OTHERS SEE

MORE SUBTLE MACHINATIONS

AT HAND.

THE IDES OF MARCH

IN HONOR OF

THE IDES OF MARCH

THE SPIRES OF THE CHURCH ON SPILLED BLOOD

THE SPIRES OF

THE CHURCH ON

SPILLED BLOOD

IN COMMEMORATION

OF TSAR ALEXANDER II,

ASSASSINATED ON

THIS SPOT IN

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA,

ON MARCH 13, 1881

MORE LIKE ST. BASIL'S IN MOSCOW

THAN ST. ISAAC'S IN ST. PETERSBURG

More of the Church here

TSAR ALEXANDER II ("THE LIBERATOR") ASSASSINATED 1881

TSAR ALEXANDER II

("THE LIBERATOR")

ASSASSINATED

MARCH 13 (N.S.) 1881

Храм Воскресения Христова

(Спас на крови)

THE CHURCH OF

THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

(THE SAVIOR ON SPILLED BLOOD)

BUILT ON THE SPOT

IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA,

WHERE

ALEXANDER II

WAS ASSASSINATED

IT IS FRIDAY. TIME FOR A BIT OF THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY: LAKE BAIKAL

IT IS FRIDAY

TIME FOR A BIT OF

THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY

LAKE BAIKAL

IN THE WAKE

OF A HYDROFOIL, 1984

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV TAKES POWER IN THE SOVIET UNION, March 11, 1985

MARCH 11, 1985

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

TAKES POWER

IN THE SOVIET UNION

IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT

IT IS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS TODAY

SINCE MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

CAME TO POWER IN THE SOVIET UNION.

HERE HE IS SHAKING HANDS

WITH HIS NEMESIS,

BORIS YELTSIN,

AT YELTSIN'S INAUGURATION

AS THE FIRST POPULARLY-ELECTED

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA (July 10, 1991).

OUR PLANE LOST A BUTTON & SO... CHINA THEN

OUR PLANE

LOST A BUTTON

& SO...

IN 1981, IN CHINA, WE WERE TOLD THAT

OUR PLANE HAD LOST A BUTTON.

SO WE LANDED IN JI'AN,

DEFINITELY NOT A TOURIST TOWN.

EARLY IN THE MORNING

I WANDERED TO

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

AND FOUND

A SCHOOL ABOUT TO COMMENCE,

INCLUDING AMONG ITS PUPILS

THIS REMARKABLY SELF-POSSESSED

YOUNG WOMAN OF A GIRL.

CHINA THEN AND NOW

HERE BE GIANTS