The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's Politburo, public figures now long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff.Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsin's biography when the politician was still alive. In...

The Language of MA the primal MotherThe evolution of the female image in 40,000 years of global Venus ArtAnnine van der Meer, 592 p. 1300 ill. full color, ISBN 978-90-820313-8-6Den Haag, 2013; heruitgave Den Haag, 2015De Bijbel van Venuskunst; het boek voor vrouwelijke symbolen.1300... Venussen kleurrijk in beeld in een groot full color boek van 592 pagina's.1300... vrouwelijke topstukken uit vele culturen en musea gepresenteerd in één boek.1300... Venus-beauties, ieder voorzien van een num...

Since Maidan in Kyiv and Russian presence in the Crimea, Ukraine has never been the same. In 2014, the country is deeply divided by the conflict imposed on the Ukrainians. But since nobody actually asked the nation, author Oleksandr Shyshko decided to take matters into his own hands and look for the answer to the ultimate question - who are the Ukrainians and what do they want.Shyshko spent his time researching the national identity of native Ukrainians, and as he went he stumbled on a discov...

Having spent years in a coma, a female protagonist is anxious to lead a normal life. Her miraculous recovery is riddled with falling in and out of our time continuum - she wanders through history in her imagination as if it were her backyard. Notwithstanding her condition, her peers are going through a real change of their own echoing events that engulfed Russia in the past few decades. In Multiple Personalities, life is a masquerade and its participants are characters from classic world lite...

Guided by an ancient prophecy, some 25 years ago the Q'ero, the living descendants of the Incas, came down from the Andean mountains. There they had lived for almost 500 years, secluded from the world. All these centuries they have guarded the traditional shamanistic ways of the paqo, the priest healer. Their preserved knowledge and pure wisdom now comes available from the source itself. In 2011 paqos from Peru started their very own training in Center Serena in The Netherlands, which has now...

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Essential Poetry includes translations by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski of lyric poetry from all of great Modernist Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva's published collections and from all periods of her life. It also includes a translation of two of Tsvetaeva's masterpieces in the genre of the long poem, "Poem of the End" and "Poem of the Mountain." The collection strives to present the best of Tsvetaeva's poetry in a small single volume and to give a representati...

A Man of Change is a gift from the Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin otherwise known as The Yeltsin Fund, produced in cooperation with Glagoslav Publications and distributed with the aim to preserve the knowledge and memory of Russia's first President.Boris Yeltsin will be remembered as the fierce, daring political leader who fought for democratic ideals of his nation during an unprecedented crisis when the Soviet empire had already fallen apart and new ...

The Investigator is set in the mid 20th century USSR. With Joseph Stalin at the helm the post-war Soviet society struggles to rebuild and heal the nation of its multiple wounds. Nothing comes easy. The authorities are being confronted with new and quite creative criminal structures that shatter socialist ideals.A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town somewhere in Ukraine. In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. Many theories of the crime emerge and to solve the mystery an i...

Figuratief schilderes Juane Xue (1962) komt oorspronkelijk uit China en was als kind al een klein tekenwonder. Zij kreeg van haar vader de bijnaam "Hui", wat "zonneschijn" betekent.

Xue woont sinds 2001 in Nederland. Haar unieke stijl is in tegenspraak met de beroemde uitspraak van Rudyard Kipling "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet". Haar werk combineert de subtiele tonaliteit van het Oosten met het uitgesproken gevoel voor kleur, dat zo typerend is voor de Frans...

Zinaida Tulub's novel The Exile is one of the most brilliant works in the canon of fiction about Taras Shevchenko, the outstanding Ukrainian poet and artist.The idea of writing about Taras Shevchenko first occurred to her when she was in her thirties, during a period spent living in exile in Kazakhstan (1947-1956). Initially, Tulub worked on the screenplay for a film called Kobzar and Yakin, which can be seen as an early prototype for the novel. She was only able to start work on the latter a...