I could post much more about Russia/Former Soviet Union, including Russian writers, poets etc, but will stop here today.

My dissertation chair was Russia and China expert Herbert Levine.

Raisonovsky taught at Penn.

One of my former co-workers at Inst of Ecos Rangoon, has a Russian Ph.D.

I went to a book reading by Yevtushenko in mid--1990s--it was an anthology of Russian poetry he compiled, edited? by Jackie Kennedy.

He asked me about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Kyi May Kaung