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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...
Who Is The Fairest of Them All? Naum Granovsky: photo chronicles of Moscow.
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English 19th-20th century posters at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
‘The more you see, the more you know’ – this saying by Aldous Huxley best describes visual art as a means of communicating information.
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Russia Pays Homage to Chekhov
The year 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), one of the greatest dramatist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Ethno Village
A three-hour drive to the southwest of Moscow takes you to an unusual settlement called ‘Ethnomir’ (‘Ethno- World’) that is not on the map of Russia as yet and is difficult to describe using normal cartographic labels.
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Ðóññêèé ÿçûê |
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Art |
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MMOMA is 10, Yeah!
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is celebrating its 10th birthday with an exhibition. This is an ‘open doors’ project.
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The ‘Vosmidesyatniki’
‘Populated Islands’ v. Unlimited Nihilism of the Contemporary World: Artists of the 1980s.
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Cinema |
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Major Russian Films coming out in 2010
In late 2008 and early 2009, the global financial downturn hit the Russian film industry in a big way.
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High Days and Holidays |
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What’s On in February
Men`s Day
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Recipe |
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A Sweet Entree to 2010
14 February: St. Valentine’s Day. 16 February: Mardi Gras.
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Book Review |
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Imperial Sunset
Empire by Dominic Lieven and Russia’s Empires by Philip Longworth.
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Real Estate |
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Your Moscow (8)
Chistiye Prudy - The North East.
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Travel |
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Dog Sleigh Rides in Moscow Oblast
About fifty kilometres north-east from Moscow there is a farmstead-cum-dog breeding centre, specialising in Siberian Huskies, called ‘Akulova Gora’.
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Family |
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Another ‘Lisa and friends’ tale
“Boris In Bother Again” (another ‘Lisa and friends’ tale, no.3).
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Family Pages (3) puzzles
‘Visual Ellipsis’. Triangles in the shape. Sudoku.
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Restaurant Review |
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Meat Restaurant
Miasnoy Club (Meat Club), a Novikov creation, has taken over the space previously occupied by Biskvit, which opened in 2001 and became one of Moscow’s early fashionable restaurants.
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Columns |
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Third Round to Stephen Lapeyrouse
Part III in Passport’s series of articles on obtaining a residence permit in Russia
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Relocation
How to Make Expatriate + Relocation = Success.
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Real Estate
Sometimes in order to see or predict the future we don’t have to invent a time-machine or go to a fortune-teller.
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Flintstone
Lived, Lives, Will Live.
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Deidre Dares!
Dare to ask Dare.
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Out and About |
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Moscow Dragons Rugby Club New Year’s party 16 Jan
New Year, new season.
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Rally Drives Moscow
On Sunday 17th January the Russian Automobile Federation held the prizegiving for its championships for 2009 at a lavish ceremony in the famous Yar Restaurant on Leningradskoe Chausse.
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Russia-American Relations at the Rotary Club of Moscow
On Wednesday 20th January the Rotary Club of Moscow International heard a talk by Erik Rubin on the subject of “US-Russia Relations”.
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New pubs: John Donne/Jean-Jaques
The twinned bistro and pub complex ‘Jean-Jaques’ and ‘John Donne’ are among the high spots of the west end of Moscow’s social scene, on Tverskoi and Nikitsky Bulvars.
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Rock’n’Roll will never die
If you think that rockabilly, the original country / hillbilly version of rock’n’roll is dead outside of the southern states of the US, you may be in for a surprise.
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Viewpoint |
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Russian Reflections, A Personal View
Avatar and Red Pinkertonism.
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