The beautiful birman cat is distinguished by its captivating sapphire blue eyes and white-gloved paws. Its delightful pointed coloring adds to the allure of this sweet and affectionate cat, whose ...

AGREAT BIRMAN cat looks kind of like a puffball Siamese: beige-golden fur, round blue eyes, a dark face and legs, and four snow-white feet. It’s the white-gloved feet that are the tricky part, says ...

Igor Birman, 82, a Russian emigre and economist who predicted the implosion of the Soviet economy and the fall of the Soviet Union a decade before the events occurred, died April 6 at his home in ...

Birman had served in Moscow as a director of planning in Soviet factories. As a consequence he had a profound distrust of official Soviet statistics and believed its economy was smaller and could ...