Anatole Shub (b. The Bronx, New York City, New York - July 2, 2006, Washington, D.C.) was a Russian-American author, journalist, researcher, editor, news director and Russian public opinion analyst. The Bronx is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City in the United States. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. ... See Wikipedia:editing for information on editing Wikipedia. ... News is new information or current events. ... Public Opinion is a book on media and democracy by Walter Lippmann. ...

Shub attended Townsend Harris High School and then joined the Navy in 1945. He graduated from the City College of New York and attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Townsend Harris High School is a public magnet high school for the humanities in the borough of Queens in New York City. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... The Medill School of Journalism, one of the colleges at Northwestern University, is the premier journalism school in the United States. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. ... The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University is an American journalism program at Columbia University. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...

His first jobs in journalism included writing, and then editing at The New Leader, a leftist but anti-communist magazine, and associate editor at Commentary . Next, he was an editor at the New York Times where he won a fellowship from the Instutute of Current World Affairs that allowed him to travel in Russia and Eastern Europe. The New Leader is a political magazine begun in 1935 and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Anti-communism is an ideology of opposition to communist organization, government and ideology. ... Commentary is a journal published by the American Jewish Committee, since 1945. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The definition of continental subregions in use by the United Nations. ...

In 1964, he was hired by the Washington Post to open a bureau in Bonn and report on Germany and Eastern Europe. Next, he was moved to the Moscow bureau where his reporting on dissidents and the political role of the army got him expelled in 1969. ... Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. ...

More recently, Shub was news director at Radio Free Europe and analyst for the United States Information Agency, studying Russian public opinion. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a radio and communications organization which is funded by the United States Congress. ... The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to what it called public diplomacy. ...

Shub was married to Joyce Lasky (who he later divorced) and had a son and daughter. He then married (and divorced) the author Barbara Raskin.

Shub died of a stroke and pneumonia on July 2, 2006. For other uses, see Stroke (disambiguation). ... Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the microscopic, alveoli (air-filled sacs) responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ...