| 1 | Addicted to Notecards: Vladimir Nabokov used 5- by 8-inch index cards to compose and order the scenes in his novels. | |
| 2 | At number two, Forbes places Vladimir Putin, which strikes me as plain wrong. | |
| 3 | Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists : Dmitri Baltermants and Vladimir Lupejko . | |
| 4 | The heavy-handed rule of Vladimir Meciar, which ended in 1998, nearly cost the country its chance of EU and NATO membership. | |
| 5 | "At the time, people thought it was amazingly cruel to keep people in exile like that, " says Vladimir Fyodorov, the editor of Gazeta Yakutia, the main regional newspaper. |