... Moliere’s play with Viktor Sukhorukov in the lead. Theater Na Maloi Bronoi. 7 p.m. The Egg (Yaitso): Felicien Marceau’s sex farce focuses on a poor, wistful young man, who is trying to crack the shell of “the egg,” as he calls middle-class society. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater small stage. 7 p.m. New Theatrical Novel (Teatralny Roman): Kirill Pirogov and Pyotr Fomenko’s stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 29th...

... high-ranking government official who needed a mobile office, though he asked The Moscow Times not to name him. He claimed a string of others in government have adopted the mobile-home concept too as a work tool. "We have all sorts in our club — from middle-class families to hunters and fishermen," Artyukhov said. But one thing holding back the sector is the lack of the extensive networks of purpose-built campsites that provide parking places, water and waste disposal facilities that support...

... of control,'" he said. Varlamov mounted a mayoral bid in Omsk but canceled it early this month after he failed to collect the required 10,000 signatures. Yakemenko, for his part, announced plans this week to create a political party of young, middle-class voters. He said the party would be built on the foundation of Nashi, known for its harassment of opposition leaders and opposition friendly foreign diplomats. It was unclear whether Yakemenko might use Ridus as a future media tool. Among...

Vasily Yakemenko, the founder of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, announced plans Monday to create a new political party designed to attract the young, disaffected, middle-class voters who were drawn to the opposition protests. Vasily Yakemenko, the founder of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, announced plans Monday to create a new political party designed to attract the young, disaffected, middle-class voters...

...." But while the tandem continues to see its main achievement as stability, what they now mean is the regime's ability to stay in power "for a long time." To guarantee their understanding of stability, the tandem contrasts the continuous middle-class demonstrations with a wave of regime-­orchestrated demonstrations. As a result, the country is now swollen with all sorts of phobias — against sexual minorities, against the "propaganda of sex" among young people, against...

A week after bloody clashes between radical youths and riot police tarnished the first major protest rally in months, the moderate middle-class opposition appeared to re-assert itself Sunday with an unexpectedly large march of thousands led by some of Russia's most prominent writers. A week after bloody clashes between radical youths and riot police tarnished...

... social spending and hence keep his electoral power base strong, although these policies may affect the country's economic diversification plans. Even if Putin is able to find ways to accommodate the needs of rival political elites, Russia's growing middle-class taxpayers will still be his Achilles' heel in the years to come. Unlike a decade ago, this widening class is demanding a corruption-free judicial system and state institutions and the protection of business rights and property. These challenging...

... at an opposition protest Tuesday. "The police are only fanning the flames," he said, writing on his blog. "Very soon the people who are angry right now will really get pissed off. We will have passed the point of no return." The middle-class Russians, who comprise the bulk of the protesters, said in interviews at rallies that they are acting out of a sense that moderates in the government have failed to win any reforms. Former President Dmitry Medvedev's much-touted promises...

... inevitably come — like a child coming of age,” she said. But Gudkov, the pollster, warned that the debate about Medvedev’s achievements does not affect the majority of Russians. He argued that the widespread disappointment among educated middle-class citizens in big cities was not shared by the provincial working class. “For the periphery, all this is insignificant — they will hardly remember Medvedev as president,” he said. 170994 179742

... the union doesn't do anything except give out boxes of chocolates at New Year's and help single mothers,” he said. Kravchenko said he was optimistic that the labor movement would grow stronger, but said his group wouldn't be joining up with the middle-class protest movement that sprouted in December. “The self-appointed leaders of 'Bolotnaya,' in my opinion, have chosen the wrong tactic,” he said. “Their slogans — free elections, free political prisoners — are out...