ah, ah moscow. 30 years after the collapse of the soviet union on the banks of the moscow river, the gleaming towers of a new business district stretch into the sky, presenting a confident picture of the new russia a short distance away above the crime. then the red star of the soviet union still glimmers, and at red square in the mortar, liam lice the lida of the october revolution of 1917. vladimir elliott, men in the long lines in front of the mausoleum may have disappeared. but the kremlin has remained the center of power with it is led by flatter may oppose him, the president of the russian federation. he rules over a country that even without the former soviet republics, is still the largest in the wild. russia in the kremlin, a new government has long since taken over. but across the country, the old symbols are as powerful as ever. the legacy of the former soviet union is a complex one. the soviet empire covered a thick that the earth s surface and was home to 2800000
Artists Dennis Evans and Nancy Mee, who are bequeathing their art collection to Seattle U, recently gave us a tour of their colorful, art-filled home in Ravenna.