Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change (88 page)

Pan Dehai,
106

paper, origins of,
128

paranoia,
255

Paris:

Garnier (theatre) in,
422

Sots Art: Political Art from Russia
exhibit,
58

Paris terrorist attacks (November 2015),
39

Parks, Rosa,
340

Pascoe, Lynn,
207

Pater, Walter,
29

Patricof, Alan,
329

Pavlov, MC,
75
,
79
–80,
97

Payne, Malcolm,
144
,
145
,
146
,
150
,
159

peace,
41

Pearl, Daniel,
38

Pearsall, Cornelia,
22

Peilman, Kirsten,
252

Pe Myint,
449

PEN:

and censorship,
36
–37

Myanmar office of,
443

PEN American Center, author as president of,
36
–37,
443

Penkin, Sergei,
81

Perm, Russia,
Welcome to Sochi
exhibit in,
57

Peterson, Peter G.,
329

Petlyura,
75
–77,
97

Pew Research Trust,
427

Phaly Nuon,
229
,
231
–35

death of,
235

photography, invention of,
185

phytoplankton,
396

Picasso, Pablo,
185

Pierneef, Henk,
144

Pinda (Balinese man),
401

Pindu, Nym,
403

Plutser-Sarno, Alex,
57

“polar hysteria,”
255

Polo, Marco,
366

Pol Pot,
230
,
231

Popov, Sergey,
53

Powell, Ivor,
164
,
173

Prague, cultural dissonance in,
22

Prigov, Dima,
38

Professor Khromov
,
386
–87,
390

propaganda,
37

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow,
55

Pussy Riot (band),
57
,
100

Putin, Vladimir,
15
,
57
–58,
71
,
97
,
99
–100,
102
,
437

Pu Yi (the last emperor),
188
,
376

Qaddafi, Muammar,
7
,
29
,
321
–23,
326
–27,
329
,
332
–34,
335
,
349
,
351
–52,
354

bedouin roots of,
323
,
341
,
343

and Circle of Fire,
354
–56

and corruption,
343

death of,
356
,
449

on elections,
336
–37

Green Book
,
322
,
330
,
332
–33

hegemony of,
345

Jamahiriya system of,
332
–33,
334
,
337
,
342

legacy of,
357

and Nation of Islam,
340

possibility of meeting with,
339
–41

Third Universal Theory of,
332

and unrest,
345
–48,
352
–53

Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam,
7
,
323
–26,
327
,
329
,
334
,
337
,
349
,
354

imprisonment of,
357

Qaddafi Foundation of,
323
,
335

and unrest,
352
–53

Qianlong Emperor,
374
–84

death of,
377

idealism of,
384

meditation of,
382

poems written by,
377
,
382

reign of,
377

Qianlong Garden of Retirement, China,
373
–84

design of,
378
–80,
382

Juanqinzhai in,
373
,
374
,
376
,
377
,
379
–84

restoration of,
383
–84

Qing dynasty,
128
,
187
,
203
,
375
–77

Qudratullah (chef),
281
–82

Radio Liberty,
61

Rados, Antonia,
281

Rafferty, Emily K.,
192
,
196

Rahim, Said Makhtoum,
271
,
272

Rakhine (Arakan) State,
459
,
461
–63

author’s visit to,
464
–68

Ramabulana, Freddy,
168
–69

Reagan administration,
325
,
345

Reed, Lou,
361

refugee camps,
25
,
233
–35,
307
,
461
–62,
473
,
481

refugees,
39
–42

and cultural exclusion,
39

and immigration,
25

Renaissance,
185
,
380

Resmini, Ni Md,
401

Rezayee, Shaima,
284

Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Larisa,
13
,
60
,
65
,
66
–68

Richards, Colin,
163

Rilke, Rainer Maria,
44

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
407
–28

aesthetics of sensuality in,
423

beach culture in,
423

Carioca culture of,
409
,
414
–15,
417
,
422

Carnival in,
408
–9

Christ the Redeemer statue in,
417

deindustrialization,
409

favelas in,
408
–15,
417
–22,
423
,
425
–28

Museu de Favela in,
414

nightlife in,
423
–24

Olympic Games in,
407
,
410
,
416
–17,
418
,
419
,
422
,
426
,
427

pacification program in,
415
–17,
420
,
421
,
426
–28

police and crime in,
409
–13,
418
,
421
,
422
,
425
–27

rejuvenation of historic sites in,
422
–25

samba in,
408
,
409
,
420
,
424

skin color in,
419
–20

social services in,
412
–14,
418
–19,
422
,
426
,
427

sports competitions in,
413

street library in,
422

Theatro Municipal in,
422
–23

update,
425
–28

UPP (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora) in,
410
–14,
418
,
420
–21,
422
,
425
–26

World Cup in,
407
,
410
,
418
,
422

“Ríu Ríu Chíu” (song),
6

Rockefeller, David,
329

Rodchenko, Aleksandr,
50

Line
,
52

Roden Crater, Arizona,
287

Rodrigues da Silva, Robson,
413
–14

Roiter, Andrei,
15

Rolpai, Dorje,
381

Romania,
435
–42

Brâncuşi’s
Endless Column
in,
287

depression in,
435
,
436
–39

Dorohoi (home of author’s ancestors),
436
,
438
–39

gay rights in,
437
,
440
–42

language of,
441

Roma (Gypsy) settlements in,
436
,
440
,
441

social liberalization in,
441

travel in,
6
–7,
25

Romanian National Radio,
437

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York,
50

Roque, Atila,
427

Rossouw, David,
169
–70

Ross Sea,
385
,
388
–89,
392

royal albatross,
394

Rohingya people,
458
–62,
464
,
468
,
480
–81

Rus, Andrei,
441
–42

Ruskin, John,
24

Russ, Rodney,
386
,
388
–90,
392
–94

Russia,
29
,
71
–102

from 1917 to 1991,
see
USSR

businessmen in,
83
–86

and capitalism,
74
,
83
–84,
95
–96

censorship in,
57
–58,
97
,
98
,
175

changing politics in,
89
–96,
102

constitution of,
92
,
94
,
97

corruption in,
100
–101

despair in,
247

drug use in,
73

economy of,
101
–2

emerging social classes in,
71
–72,
90

expats in US,
177
–79

gay life in,
35
,
58
,
71
,
80
–82,
98
–99

ideology in,
82
,
91
,
93

Imperial Porcelain from,
30

interpretation of democracy in,
91
–93

organized crime in,
71
,
73
–74,
77
,
79
,
81
,
86
–89,
100

magazines in,
77
–78,
98

Orthodox Church in,
72
,
82
–83,
99
–100

parties and nightclubs in,
73
–74,
98

popular music in,
78
–80,
97
,
98

rave scene in,
72
–74

sanctions against,
101

social scene in,
72
–77

spirit vs. bureaucracy in,
61

tusovkis
(social circles) in,
72
–73,
75
,
77
,
87

update,
97
–102

Russian Patriotic movement,
94

Russian Revolution (1917),
62

Russia Without Us
(zine),
98

Rutskoi, Alexander,
178

Ruzicka, Marla,
27
,
281
,
285

Rwanda,
305
–20

Avega (widows’ organization) in,
308
,
310

as Belgian colony,
305
–6

genocide in,
305
–7

HIV/AIDS in,
307
,
308
,
310
–12,
313
,
315

independence (1962),
306

internal politics in,
306

les enfants de mauvais souvenir
in,
307
–19

post-genocide years in,
310

propaganda in,
37

Radio Mille Collines in,
306

update,
319
–20

women raped in,
305
,
306
–19

Saffron Revolution (2007), Myanmar,
444
,
447
,
449
,
452
,
462
,
472

St John, Ronald Bruce,
348

Sakharov, Andrei,
93

Sakharov Center Moscow,
Forbidden Art
exhibit,
57

Salakhova, Aydan,
85

Samim, Farouq,
38
–39,
282
,
283
–84

Samuels, Sammy,
447
,
467

Sandi (Balinese man),
402
–3

San Pe, Robert,
457

San San Oo,
467

Santia (Balinese man),
401
–2,
404

Santyar, Achmed Shekib, “Epitaph,”
275

São Paulo, Brazil,
409
,
410
,
420

Sarandon, Susan,
361

Saudi Arabia:

assassination plot in,
341
,
348

capital punishment for gays in,
35

Sbeta, Abdulmonem M.,
344

Scher, Lucy,
43
,
489

Scher, Oliver,
43
,
489

Schönfeldt, Joachim,
146

Schröder, Gerhard,
348

Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz,
409

Scott, Robert Falcon,
393

Scott Island,
392

scuba diving,
484
–92

sea level, rising,
303
,
396

seasonal affective disorder (SAD),
250

Sebidi, Helen,
159

Seck, Stephen,
153

Sediqi, Ismail,
273

Sekete, Paul,
174

Selepe, Sydney,
152
,
153

Senegal,
261
–68

immigrants to US,
268

Lebou beliefs and culture in,
268

mental health services in,
267
–68

n’deup
ritual in,
262
–67,
268

Senoussi, Abdallah,
326

September
11
terrorist attacks,
38
,
269
,
339
,
347
,
453

Seuss, Dr. (pseud. Theodore Geisel),
301

sexual identity,
33
–36