In the March 14 edition of The Washington Post, a report by Michael Birnbaum: "As energy prices drop, Russians are protesting"  There is reference to a mortgage-holder Hungarian bank.

In the February 27-28 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Five Best books selected by historian Sheila Fitzpatrick: "On Soviet Women"

We are also sending an excerpt of a book review by Richard Pipes: "Stalin: He Couldn't Have Done It Without Them" published in the December 3, 2015 edition of The New York Review of  Books.  The book is "On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics" by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Princeton University Press, $35, 364 pp.