Reverbiage: Stories from NPR tagged 'duma'

Russia Cracks Down On Government Critics

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:00 EST

A draft law in Russia's Duma would make cooperating with NGOs an act of treason. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin backs the law, and it seems it will likely pass the parliament. NPR's Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer and host Andrea Seabrook discuss the law's potential implications.

Firoozeh Dumas: 'Laughing Without an Accent'

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:46:00 EDT

Writer Firoozeh Dumas talks about her new memoir, Laughing Without an Accent. It's a collection of humorous essays about her life as the daughter of Iranian immigrants.

Marlene Dumas Pushes 'Grave' Limits

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Dumas became the highest paid living female artist in 2005 when one of her paintings sold at auction for $3.4 million. She gets introspective about being blonde and painting another famous blonde, Marilyn Monroe, post-autopsy.

U.S., Russian Panels Meet Openly for the First Time

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:00:00 EDT

Legislators from the Russian parliament, the Duma, and the U.S. Congress meet Thursday in the first open meeting between foreign affairs committees of the two institutions. It will be the third in the series of meetings between the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Affairs of the Duma, but it's the first to be attended by the media and the public. The gathering comes as a dispute over U.S. plans to extend its missile defense system to Eastern Europe have brought U.S.-Russian relations to a new low.

'Duma': A Boy and a Cheetah

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Carroll Ballard's movie Duma about a boy and a cheetah. He says the film has the same magical qualities as Ballard's earlier films, Fly Away Home and The Black Stallion.

Russians in Backlash Against Foreign Adoption

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT

The removal in Russia of a child recently adopted by an American couple has sparked discontent over international adoptions. Members of the Duma recently decried the adoptions, accusing foreigners of "stealing" children and worsening a demographic crisis. The U.S. embassy issued a stern statement saying that police conduct in the case was possibly illegal. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.