Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011-12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia's case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores the media, including the internet, film, novels, and fashion, through which the protesters have expressed themselves; and considers the outcome of the movements, including the new forms of nationalism, intellectualism, and feminism put forward. Overall, the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian - and global - politics.

Beyond the Cold War represents the first-ever attempt by media scholars and journalists to dissect the Cold War by examining mutual media images in the United States and the former Soviet Union. The result of a bilateral conference in Moscow in 1989, this volume offers an original journalistic assessment of the Cold War and its aftermath as a communications phenomenon. Discussions include the past and present state of Cold War rhetoric, the portrayal of Russians and Americans on television in the two countries, and images of self and other as portrayed by the two media.

Good Girls on Bad Drugs portrays the shattered lives of girls next door who became crack, coke, opioid, and heroin addicts, and who in their hustle for drugs became streetwalkers and internet escorts. In jailhouse journals and interviews, they confess with candor and courage to their sex work and drug crimes amid two Connecticut mega-casinos and the three nearby small cities. Doomed by their addictions, most girls never recover, while others die young from AIDS, OD, or murder. Here a spotlight is shined upon 22 lives. One chapter, one life. And sometimes one death. Living and dying on the fringes of society, four fatally overdosed, one of them a 17-year-old internet escort whose death exposed a prostitution ring. Three were murdered by johns. One was an accessory to two murders. Another, after her prison break, was hunted in two states. Another robbed six banks in three states in six consecutive days. All their photos and interviews are included in these dramatic true crime stories about some guys' lust for sex and these girls' thirst for drugs. .................... CONTENTS: ..... Part One - The UNDERWORLD; 01 - MARIE - A Shadowy Figure Afoot Flashes "The Look"; 02 - LINDA - Mr Crack Introduces Ms Jane to Mr John; ...... Part Two - The INTERNET ESCORTS; 03 - NORWICH and the Bad Bets on the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos; 04 - LADY LUCK - The Escorts' Guide to the Casinos; 05 - THE THREE GRACES - Outcasts on Outcalls; 06 - DEVON - Casino Escort of Last Resort; 07 - OLIVIA - The Baby Girl; 08 - KATRINA - Life as Hurrica≠ 09 - HOPE - Topless Dancer in a Bottomless Pit; 10 - LYNNE - The Crackhead Addicted to Prostitution; ...... Part Three - The STREETWALKERS; 11 - NEW LONDON - A Whale of a Tale and a Tail of a Wha≤ 12 - COPS & RUBBERS - The Streetwalkers' Guide to the City; 13 - HEATHER - The Seriously Serial Bank Bandit; 14 - RENEE - A Connecticut Lawyer in Judge Arthur's Court; 15 - TRISH - Off to See the Wizard of Poz; 16 - JESSICA - The Prodigal Mom; 17 - DARLENE - Escape to Never-Never L∧ ...... Part Four - The HEROIN HEROINES; 18 - WILD and ANTIC WILLIMANTIC - The Riddle of the Syrin≥ 19 - JOE the JOHN - And Now a Word from Our Sponsors; 20 - LIZ - Woman Who Runs with the Werewolves; 21 - JENNIFER - Beauty and the Beasts; 22 - BONNIE - She Takes the High Road and He Takes the Low Road; 23 - AMBROSIA - Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death; ...... Part Five - ANOTHER WORLD; 24 - ROBIN - The Prosthetic Prostitute; 25 - SEX for HIGHER - A Eulogy; ...... APPENDICES; Documentation; Further Reading; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Glossary of Street Slang

Someone is having a sleepless night and browsing the internet. A girl fights for her life in a lift. New Window. A protest in Trafalgar Square. New Window. A naked man in a bathtub. New Window. Janelle Monae, dancing. The possibilities are endless. Even at 2am. That's the thing about being Extremely Online: there's no limit on where you can go.