As one of Russia's most influential writers, Alexander Pushkin is revered for his creative use of language and his large body of work. His statue on Moscow's Tverskaya Ulitsa was built in 1880 and was moved to Pushkin Square in 1950, and throughout the past century it has overlooked a multitude of changes in the city. Igor Tabakov has accumulated a series of different views of the monument to the writer, and here he shares his favorites.

The Internet and even the more limited blogosphere are simply not going to transform Russian political life or Russian culture as quickly as many of the partisans of the world wide web have suggested.

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

In his new production of "The Seagull," Kristian Smeds did what any self-respecting contemporary visionary would do when confronted with a work groaning under the weight of its own mythology: He took the play on, shook it hard and created something new that responds to it.

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.