Night of the New Russian

By David Brining

The Priapin's marriage is beginning to crack. Sergey, a wealthy media mogul and possible Parliamentary candidate, and Tanya, a high-flying lawyer, barely talk, and when they do, it's to exchange barbed comments about each other's pasts. Caught in the middle, their sons Misha and Sasha, dream of a life in the USA, far away from the chaos and stress of Yeltsin's Russia, but Sergey's ambitions and Tanya's career threaten the stability of the family itself.
Third short story in a series by David Brining exploring life in post-Communist Russia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Brining
• Release date: Jul 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476284781

David Brining

The author has lived and worked in several different countries and has been, variously, a camel jockey, a tennis coach, an underwater photographer, a motivational speaker, a magazine editor, an opera singer, a pantomime dame, a cat-sitter and a ghost-buster.

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The Night of the New Russian

David Brining

Copyright David Brining 2012

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WHEN Sergey Priapin arrived home, he had already decided to write off the gift to the policeman against his expenses, 'lose track' of the cash in New York. He had a creative accountant. The banks of the Cayman Islands had benefited greatly from Sergey's twelve years of 'investments'. For Sergey and his accountant, the great joy of free market capitalism was the ability to say 'screw you' to the government and hang on to their cash. In the old days, the taxman would have the lot, and Sergey would have been shipped off to Siberia before you could say 'parasite'.

He placed his matching Moschino briefcase and suitcase on the polished parquet floor