Singleminded, an ezine devoted to politics, religion, and society. Each in its own way demonstrates the fickleness of the time's arrow. Of course, things have changed just a little bit since then. The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, and the Russian edition of the space program has fallen on hard times indeed. Money promised by the government doesn't arrive.
Workers go unpaid for months.
The heat is turned off because the bill hasn't been paid. Such woes are typical in Russia today, but these folks aren't building cars or CD players. They are putting together an orbiting space station. When things go wrong 125 miles up in space, it's trouble. It began in an era when Republican domination of the political landscape reached everywhere but the White House, and they aimed to fix that.