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10 Jul 2009

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, Russia celebrated the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, a holiday that dates all the way back to last year, when First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva snapped her manicured fingers and decided that on July 8 there should be an oddly shaped bench, a cheesy pop concert and lots of daisies.

9 Jul 2009

British Director Reflects on the Russian Greats
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times The eminent Peter Brook took the stage at a theater festival in Poland to expound on his influences and predecessors.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times I am like a parapsychologist,” said Lena, which was good, as she had finally said something close to a recognizable word — “psychologist”— with a recognizable meaning.

G8 Leaders to Be Gifted Books, Coins at Summit
By Marta Falconi / The Associated Press World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit that opened Wednesday in Italy will each be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future.

8 Jul 2009

Zany ‘Hamlet’ Tops Stellar Opera Season
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times With all of Moscow’s opera and ballet theaters due soon to be on holiday until autumn, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the best — and the worst — of what they had to offer in the season now drawing to a close.

Calendar Listings: July 9 - July 15, 2009
Listings of cultural events being held in Moscow this week.

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7 Jul 2009

An Insider’s Guide to Moscow for Mr. Obama
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times Tourists who choose to go on organized tours to Moscow always regret it in the end. You may lodge in a nice hotel, say a whole floor in the Ritz-Carlton, and get to bring your own chef and bodyguards, but you are still restricted to seeing the city through the tinted windows of your limousine.

6 Jul 2009

A Stark Look at Opulence In the UN
By Alexandra Odynova / The Moscow Times Photographer Anton Koslov Mayr allows visitors to have a peek inside the United Nations, and you may or may not like what you see with his exhibition at the Photographer.ru gallery.

3 Jul 2009

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times

It Girl Ksenia Sobchak is never afraid to speak her mind, whether she’s haranguing contestants on her reality show “Dom-2” or sticking the knife into a fellow socialite.

2 Jul 2009

'God' Illustrates Banal Carnage of Middle Class
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times French playwright Yasmina Reza’s study of two couples and their bourgeois concerns comes to the Sovremennik Theater.

M83 Takes Moscow Back to '83
By Finn Cohen / The Moscow Times The French group brings its '80s-infused pop to Ikra this Friday.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times The voice at the end of the line did not have the dulcet tones of what you'd expect from a woman answering the phone at the Kremlin.

1 Jul 2009

Morrissey Throws Arms Around Moscow, St. Pete
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times It's taken Morrissey a long time to get to Moscow, but the former frontman from The Smiths finally makes his debut in the city on Wednesday at B1 Maximum.

30 Jun 2009

Russian Films Rule Roost at Moscow Film Festival
By Tom Birchenough / Special to The Moscow Times Director Nikolai Dostal takes the Gold St. George Award for 'Pete on the Way to Heaven' as the festival comes to a close.

29 Jun 2009

World Press Photos Impress, Disappoint
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times ""To collect photographs,"" Susan Sontag once wrote, ""is to collect the world."" The world collected by the 2008 World Press Photo competition, whose prize exhibition opened at the former Krasny Oktyabr chocolate factory last Friday, is a veritable flipbook of the last year in the news.

26 Jun 2009

MIGZ Fly Over Moscow, Drop Electronic Art
By Finn Cohen / The Moscow Times The second MIGZ Festival will hit Moscow at 1 p.m. on Friday at 35MM cinema and will spread throughout the city's most popular nightspots until (at least) 7 a.m. Saturday morning.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times It has been a quiet week for the tabloids, with very little flesh on the bones of any celebrity story. It's at times like this that you find yourself watching a wobbly video of popera singer Nikolai Baskov trying to pronounce ""restructurization.""

25 Jun 2009

Chaplin Family Channel Charlie in Circus Acts
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times One of Europe’s most famous theatrical dynasties is in Moscow as part of the Chekhov International Theater Festival.

Electronica Beat With a Heart
By Miriam Elder / Special to The Moscow Times Ratatat is the perfect music to blast through your iPod as you wander the streets of Moscow.

Wanted: Map of Moscow
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times There is a street map by the ticket office in the entrance to Mayakovskaya metro station. It's the older entrance next to the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall or the Starlite Diner, depending on your note of reference.

24 Jun 2009

Gold Medals but No Top Prize at Ballet Contest
By Zsofia Budai / Special to The Moscow Times Featuring more than 100 dancers, two dozen choreographers and a handful of the most distinguished names in ballet, the XIth International Ballet Competition brought together some of the most promising talent on the international ballet scene.

Manu Chao Hits Gorky Park
By Miriam Elder / Special to The Moscow Times Manu Chao, the Spanish-French musician who plays Gorky Park on Wednesday night, belongs to that rarest of musical breeds, espousing overt political views without being unbearably irritating.

23 Jun 2009

Sub Shines Amid Mixed Bag at Venice Biennale
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times Russia featured heavily outside the main exhibition at Venice with veterans and new talent, although not everything was a success.

22 Jun 2009

New Rules, New Art At MMOMA Show
By Claudia Arozqueta / Special to The Moscow Times The exhibition “The Future Depends On You. New Rules,” provides the visitor with a comprehensive look at the Russian contemporary art scene with over eighty artworks — including paintings, videos, photographs and installations — in place on the third floor of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

19 Jun 2009

Healing Moscow Film Fest Showcases Young, Old
By Tom Birchenough / Special to The Moscow Times The Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) that opens Friday will give the local film world a chance to calm down after its recent financial and political turmoil.

In The Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, the sexiest woman alive (circa 2008), Megan Fox, came to Moscow for the local premiere of her new film, “Transformers — Revenge of the Fallen.” She also went along to the obligatory news conference at the Ritz-Carlton, although she came across as more sulky than sultry.

18 Jun 2009

Dancing Tale of Every Man and Every Woman
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times Alla Sigalova mixes dance and drama in ‘Poor Liza,’ a love story that sees two performers shine with their acting and dancing skills.

Russian-American Artists in Tretyakov
By Alec Luhn / Special to The Moscow Times In David Burliuk's ""Hudson,"" a view of the New York City skyline seems to fly apart into ribbons of image and memory like a fleeting dream.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times The small piece of paper had a knife drawn on it and was stuck to a notice board at Moscow State University. It stood out as it was the only notice not offering to write an original dissertation on the subject of your choice.

17 Jun 2009

Orchestra Fest Hits Season High Point
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times Despite a crisis-related reduction in its budget, this year's annual Festival of Symphony Orchestras of the World, which ended last Friday, proved to be the best of the four that have taken place to date.

Calendar Listings: June 17-25, 2009
Listings of cultural events being held in Moscow this week.

15 Jun 2009

Diverse Russian Art on Show at Venice Biennale
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times The Venice Biennale, which marked its 53rd installment this year, is something of an art-world cross between the Grammys, the Cannes Film Festival and the Davos economic summit.

11 Jun 2009

Chat-Show Host Shines in Story of 'The House'
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times Everybody knows that a house is not a home. But what happens when a man gets it into his head that a house he has seen is just the place where he wants to relocate his family’s home hearth? That is precisely what we learn in a show called “The House” at the Contemporary Play School.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times Britain’s “Big Brother” has its first Russian contestant. And who would have thought that it would be a female boxer called Angel McKenzie?

10 Jun 2009

Ghostface Killah aka Dennis Rides Into Town
By Finn Cohen / The Moscow Times Once part of the hip-hop crew Wu-Tang Clan, rapper Ghostface Killah makes his Russian debut at Arma 09 this Thursday.

Calendar Listings: June 10-17, 2009
Listings of cultural events being held in Moscow this week.

Gnessin Plays Outside for Free
By Elmira Kuznetsova / Special to The Moscow Times Free open-air concerts, courtesy of students at Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music and HSBC Russia, begin June 11.

9 Jun 2009

A Cappella Group Jukebox Make Good on Own
By Frederick Bernas / Special to The Moscow Times Jukebox Trio, two singers and a human beatbox, cover songs across different genres from Elvis to Bossa Nova.

8 Jun 2009

Perm Museums' Plan Dubbed the 'New Bilbao'
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times A two-hour flight east of Moscow, the city of Perm strikes you more as an industrial backwater than it does a future capital of the art world.

5 Jun 2009

Marsalis, Auktsyon at Jazz Fest
By Elmira Kuznetsova / Special to The Moscow Times The start of summer means that it is time for the Usadba Jazz Festival, which will take place this Saturday and Sunday at the picturesque 18th-century Arkhangelskoye Estate.

Summer Bazaar Set For Indian Embassy
By Marina Lukanina / Special to The Moscow Times The Embassy of Indian hosts its annual Summer Bazaar this Saturday, an event that has added significance as 2009 is the Year of India in Russia.

Stars Out for Bolshoi Veterans
The Moscow Times Ballet and opera lovers can catch a star-studded event Friday as performers from the Bolshoi Theater and the Grand Ballet dance center take part in a gala performance to raise money for former Bolshoi artists who have fallen on hard times.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, the glossy magazines have been doing what they do best — taking us into the houses of famous people so that we can marvel at their taste in wallpaper and leather sofas.

4 Jun 2009

Marchuk Shines in Unworldy Tale of Young Girl
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times Viktoria Zvyagina’s play shows a woman grow from a fetus to sexual maturity in 90 minutes.

Calendar Listings: June 4-10, 2009
Listings of cultural events being held in Moscow this week.

Yankovsky's Final Film at Fest
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times Oleg Yankovsky's last film will open the Moscow Film Festival, which will finish with a new Johnny Depp blockbuster, organizers said as they announced the competition lineup.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times The pamphlet was lying in the entrance hall to my apartment building. It's often used as an impromptu recycling area, where people leave magazines and books for anyone to take.

3 Jun 2009

Tolstoy Organizes Nettle Fest to Help a Village
By Marina Darmaros / Special to The Moscow Times Leo Tolstoy was once the justice of peace in Krapiva, a village in the Tula region where his descendants have organized a festival.

2 Jun 2009

Russian Art World Hit By Hundreds of Fakes
Bloomberg Russian art experts have listed as a fake a painting that Christie's International sold as a $3 million work by Boris Kustodiev.

1 Jun 2009

Searching for the Song of Moscow's Nightingales
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times A group of volunteers had their ears open in parks and on streets this weekend for the sound of a nightingale’s distinctive song.

29 May 2009

Bolshoi Theater Celebrates Genius of Diaghilev
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times One hundred years ago this month, impresario Sergei Diaghilev presided in Paris over the first of his so-called Russian Seasons, the results of which were to cause one of the most profound revolutions ever in the world of dance.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, the Russian tabloids have been discussing the former rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, who has definitely not just given birth to a baby with steely blue eyes.

28 May 2009

Improved Lineup for 2009 World Orchestra Fest
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times The historic Hall of Columns of the House of Unions on Okhotny Ryad opens its doors next week to the fourth annual Festival of Symphony Orchestras of the World. Beginning on Monday and running until June 12, the festival is due to present orchestras from France, Germany and Hungary, as well as a distinguished local orchestra and, as at all past festivals, a leading orchestra from Russia’s far-flung regions.

Calendar Listings: May 28 - June 3, 2009
Listings of cultural events being held in Moscow this week.

Jazz Bass' Rostotsky Retunes 'Old Songs'
By Elmira Kuznetsova / Special to The Moscow Times Many of those who grew up in the Soviet Union remain fond of the simple melodies from that time. It is this treasury of sadness, melancholy and love that is an inspiration for Alex Rostotsky, founder of the Jazz Bass Theater band and one of Moscow's finest bass players.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times Gennady was exactly what you would expect from a body bag seller -- if you have ever expected anything of a body bag seller: slightly brusque and unwilling to make much chitchat, as if he could hear the sands of time running out of his hourglass as we spoke.

27 May 2009

Francophone Slant to Chekhov Theater Festival
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times If it works once, it’s worth repeating. That is a motto that might describe the 8th Chekhov International Theater Festival in Moscow — although only in part.

26 May 2009

How Pyotr Smirnov Became the King of Vodka
Reuters From the court of the tsar, through the Russian Revolution and into James Bond's ice-cold Martini, Smirnoff vodka has had a tumultuous history.

25 May 2009

Chanel, Stravinsky Film Brings Cannes to an End
Reuters “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky,” is the story of a love affair between the composer and the fashion icon.

22 May 2009

Breugel, Conceptualists Side by Side in Vienna
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times For any artist, the honor of an exhibition in one of Europe's major museums is a rare one indeed.

Photo Gallery: Moscow Bids Farewell to Oleg Yankovsky
Photos of Muscovites lined up around Lenkom Theater on Friday to bid farewell to actor Oleg Yankovsky, who died last week at age 65.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, Yana Rudkovskaya, the producer of Eurovision winner Dima Bilan, presented her tell-all memoir ""The Confessions of a Concubine."" She poses on the cover lying on a leather couch with a tiger, in what I can only assume is a tribute to her love affair with the animal-print dresses of Roberto Cavalli.

21 May 2009

Dorst's Tale of Marriage Fails to Come to Life
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times The German playwright Tankred Dorst is one of the “international” names of theater, a writer whose work is frequently translated into and produced in most of the major languages of the world.

Grammy-Winning Pianist at Great Hall
By Elmira Kuznetsova / Special to The Moscow Times By the time he was 11 months old, Yevgeny Kissin was humming a Bach fugue that his elder sister was practicing on the piano. A year later, he started playing the piano himself, and his destiny was predetermined.

Wanted
By Kevin O'Flynn / The Moscow Times The ad was hidden in a free paper, in the mailbox, that usually has little in it but pages and pages of ads for doors. How many doors does Russia really need?

20 May 2009

A Tank That Brings Judaism to Moscow Streets
By Elizabeth Shockman / Special to The Moscow Times Launched in New York in 1974, the tank travels around Moscow trying to get Russian Jews to perform a mitzvah.

19 May 2009

Instrument Sound That Went Round the World
By Elmira Kuznetsova / Special to The Moscow Times Designed in the Urals in the 1970s, the Polivoks synthesizer has become a favorite for Western groups looking for a new sound.

18 May 2009

The Man Who Photographed St. Pete
By Alec Luhn / Special to The Moscow Times One cloudy day in 1973, photographer Boris Smelov perched high above a dvor, or courtyard, in Leningrad.

15 May 2009

Museums Open Doors to All This Saturday Night
By Max Seddon / Special to The Moscow Times No plans for Saturday? Then head to the third annual Museum Night, set to encompass well over a hundred museums, exhibition spaces and private galleries across the whole of Moscow.

In the Spotlight
By Anna Malpas / The Moscow Times This week, CTC started a new sitcom called ""Love Isn't What It Seems."" The heroine is a plump girl called Alisa who blames all her troubles on her extra pounds.

Rare Offering of All Of Haydn's 'Seasons'
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times Following its highly successful performance two years ago of Joseph Haydn's oratorio ""The Creation,"" the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, led by its artist director Alexander Rudin and joined by soloists and chorus from abroad, brings to Tchaikovsky Hall on Tuesday Haydn's only other work in the same form, his much lesser-known ""The Seasons.""

14 May 2009

Levinsky's New Take on 'Krechinsky's Wedding'
By John Freedman / The Moscow Times Director Alexei Levinsky shows a new side to Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin's dark and disturbing comedy.

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