Quotes from Anne Garrels

unlike in the United States, there can be no place in Russia for a free market in religious life.

the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent "nontraditional" communities

Mormons would like to cut back on American missionaries and rely more on Russians.

He has trumpeted Russian moral superiority over Western individualism, degradation, and duplicity

has to continually battle Orthodox charges that his church is a "foreign un-Russian sect,

the missionaries still see a growing anti-Americanism among the congregation.

Evangelicals' support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,

She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.

thirty-thousand-dollar face-lift in the West is perhaps two thousand dollars in Russia

Dr. Pestova, who trained in England, has five thousand patients a year.

advantages to the Orthodox Church, citing it as the source of the nation's spiritual strength and tradition,

Experts here now estimate at least one in every hundred Chelyabinsk residents is infected.

The explosion of HIV was triggered by the sharp rise in heroin use in the post-Soviet 1990s.

the U.S. military did little to stop poppy production. Some go so far as to say the United States has deliberately tried to get Russians hooked.

the staff, which once welcomed foreign funders and reporters with open arms, is now no longer willing to meet.

a promising political career, which requires unquestioning adherence to Putin's policies.

asks whether an infected child can live in an orphanage. "They still think HIV is caught like a cold

issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.

women who saved their families because men were less ready to bury their pride and do whatever job

problem is particularly strong in Russia, where treatment in outlying regions is often inadequate

they believe the legacy of the Soviet Union's demise has left men a lot weaker than women

They wrestle with why it has turned out so badly, unsure whom to blame.

he can't reveal he has AIDS in his village, or he would be ostracized and lose his job as a mechanic.

their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,