..., too. I grew up everywhere, and my children were born in Paris. Now Britain is refusing them citizenship. It seems my grandfather's 15 minutes in Manchester weren't sufficient to confer Britishness on generations of descendants. So when it comes to emigration, I'm biased. We Kupers are serial migrants. But it is objective fact that perhaps a third of young people in Western countries should emigrate tomorrow. Now that emigration has become a cinch, it's a no-brainer. Just go already. Emigration...

... focus on Chinese-Soviet relations, Asia Division (1969-75); first secretary in political section, covering Soviet internal affairs and dissent, U.S. Embassy, Moscow (1976-77); senior intelligence analyst, specializing in dissent, human rights problems, emigration policy, nationality issues and cultural trends, Soviet Internal Affairs Division (1978 -91) 1951-56 — Georgetown University, Institute of Languages and Linguistics, editor of the Russian-English military dictionary project for the Department...

... targeted approach is much more effective than broader sanctions. Take, for example, the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which was also aimed at pressuring the Kremlin to improve human rights in the Soviet Union — specifically, the universal right to emigrate. Although the amendment helped thousands of Soviet Jews and other religious minorities to emigrate, it also hurt ordinary people because it placed broad trade restrictions on the country. Critics say the expanded Magnitsky act will have less...

... American businesses "can compete on a level playing field in Russia as other members of the World Trade Organization." The Jackson-Vanik amendment regulates trade between the United States and "nonmarket" economies that restrict emigration and other human rights. In a speech to business executives in Singapore, Kirk said: "We firmly believe that China can contribute even more to global prosperity, if it opens its markets with the same dedication that has characterized its...

... Gallery included billionaire oil traders, Kremlin insiders, world-class musicians and an alien abductee. The World Championship match features the reigning titleholder, India's Viswanathan Anand, against Boris Gelfand, the Minsk-born grandmaster who emigrated to Israel in the 1990s. They belong to the old guard of modern chess, having played each other for the first time in 1989. Anand is characterized as the "tiger from Madras," Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the head of the International Chess...

... — from the Stalin period to the end of the Soviet Union was universally condemned in the West. In particular, the United States passed the Jackson-Vanik amendment in 1974 as a sanction against the Soviet practice of limiting the rights of Jews to emigrate. But Medinsky's favorite history-falsification topic is World War II. For example, he claims that Soviet troops never really invaded or occupied Poland or the Baltic states, but only "incorporated" them. This is the standard spurious...

... million Russians have left the country in recent years, according to data released last year by the state Audit Chamber, which tracks migration via tax revenues. Ekho Moskvy radio cited the head of the state body Sergei Stepashin comparing the wave of emigration to that after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. At Aidan Gallery's farewell party, artists stood smoking and gloomily discussing the impending changes at Vinzavod — a Soviet-era wine factory converted into a hip gallery complex. "It...