Contents of issue March 2005

Best Places For Business Lunch
We lift the lid on what makes a real Бизнeс Ланч

Maslenitsa (Butter Week)
For seven days in March Russians eat a lot of blinis, but why?

Move Over, Mozart!
Twelve-year-old Alex Prior doesn’t think of Mozart as competition – Alex wrote his Requiem in only five days. He’s a child prodigy, and he sings too.

48 Hours in St Petersburg
Our editor takes the express train from Moscow to St Petersburg, and has some ideas about what to do on a weekend in the Second Capital