Issue 4269. Last Updated: 11/07/2009

Words Worth a Thousand Pictures

By Max Seddon
I recently translated an artwork — not the text written to it, not the text in it, but the actual artwork — that is also a legal document, which for its author, Yury Albert, is par for the course.

Crime Watch

Drunk Burglar Trampled To Death By Giant Pig

By Carl Schreck
The 200-kilogram hog was aggravated by the stink of booze emanating from the luckless thief, police say.

A Different Pace Beneath the City

The Moscow Times
Our staff photographers have shared their favorite shots from one of the world's largest, fastest and most architecturally stunning underground transport systems.



Theater Plus

Maksym Kurochkin Cooks Up Great Drama

By John Freedman
“Kitchen,” a weird, wild and wonderful force of nature that was commissioned by Oleg Menshikov — Russia’s one and only true matinee idol —was a monstrous hit when it premiered in 2000, and suddenly new plays were the hot item in Russian theater.

Far Eastern Republic of the 1920s as Model for the Future Sparks Debate in Vladivostok

By Paul Goble
The far eastern republic’s mixed economy, which made use of both market forces and state capitalism, might have allowed it to become one of the most developed regions of Russia and Northeast Asia.

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