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Kharms Dance Novella Is a Hit
A young man stops to ask an old woman the time. Offering him her clock, the young man replies, "There are no hands here." The old woman, consulting the blank clock face tells him "It's now a quarter to three."
Ostrovsky Comedy is Unhurried Art at Mayakovsky
In Mindaugas Karbauskis' production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Talents and Admirers" at the Mayakovsky Theater a man who has devoted his life and love to theater often tinkles a small, high-pitched bell.
U.S., St. Pete Unite Over Brodsky's Flat
By Irina Titova
The apartment-museum of Russian-born writer and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Brodsky may open in St. Petersburg as a joint cultural project between Russia and the United States.
Prokhorov Winning in Coffee Chain Latte Election
Voting has already begun in the presidential election in Moscow, in one coffee chain at least, which allows drinkers to publicly declare their presidential preference before the March 4 election. Instead of a white slip, the ballot paper is in the form of cinnamon powder sieved onto your drink.
Bolshoi's Corps de Ballet in Top Form in 'Beauty'
Grandiose is the best one-word description I can come up with for the Bolshoi Theater's partly new production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Sleeping Beauty" that premiered in mid-November at the theater's newly reopened Main Stage.
Olga Khabarova / For MT
Talking With New Wave of Moscow Graffiti Artists
By Alli Rath
Inside the movie theater in central Moscow, about 50 twenty-somethings watch a private premiere of a documentary. The final scene sees the Moscow graffiti group SNO Crew tagging their name high up on an advertising board overlooking Red Square. The police look on helpless.
- New Yorker's Remnick on Russian Yin and Yang
- Film Festival Aims to Bring More Horror to Russia
- In the Spotlight
- British Charity ARC Works for Disabled
- Teatr.doc Take On Belarussian Opposition, KGB
- Wanted: The Muppets
- Siege Memorial Events Set Up
- Clowns Drain to Cirque du Soleil
- Neeps, Haggis, Tatties At Burns Supper Night
- Moscow Takes Blake's Visionary Work to Heart
Families Worry Rig Tragedy Being Swept Away
As the anti-election fraud protest at Prospekt Akademika Sakharova raged around her, Yelena Bogush seemed out of place.
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Investors Give Rallies Mixed ReviewsBy Irina Filatova and Howard Amos
Climate was a recurring theme at a forum Thursday with government officials and investors discussing Moscow's severe frost and the impact next month's presidential election will have on the business environment.
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A More Realistic Vision of Russia's Greatness
Perhaps the central message of the collapse of Soviet communism can be summed up as follows: If it is to survive and flourish on the world stage, Russia needs to develop a different kind of realpolitik.
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