Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the United Nations AIDS program, shares his views regarding the cost and consequences in store for a society that turns its back on AIDS.

Tequilajazzz releases a new CD -- its first full album of new material since 1999 -- and will present the album to fans at a concert at local club B2 on Thursday.

Pop idol Filipp Kirkorov and his wife, singing celebrity Alla Pugachyova, are about to take up residence in America's Windy City.

Whether by accident or design, the final days of this year's Golden Mask festival -- honoring the top achievements in Russian theater for the 2000-2001 season -- feature some of the event's most quirky entries.

Nearly a decade after its 1993 debut, the fifth not-quite annual International Tap Parade is about to fill Moscow once again with the sound of the pitter-patter of feet.

The Moscow Literature Museum is currently hosting the first posthumous exhibit of the talented Russian artist Lidia Shulgina, who illustrated dozens of children's books in Russia and abroad.

Within an hour's reach of the capital, Oxford provides a full day -- or even several days -- of diversion, especially for the more culturally minded traveler.

David Hoffman's timely new book, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia goes to show that President Vladimir Putin's vow to eliminate the oligarchs as a class was overly ambitious.

John Burnham Schwartz is a brave man. His novel, Claire Marvel, is that rarissima avis, a love story, written by a man, that is not afraid of itself.

Of all the luxuries I've had to give up since having children one of the hardest to accept has been the loss of a leisurely Sunday brunch.

Far be it from me to criticize IKEA of launch a campaign against globalization, but I am calling out to the consumer to find his or her own personal flair when it comes to home decoration.

The music and dance of the Mariinsky Theater's production of ""The Nutcracker"" played a distant second fiddle to the incredibly lavish scenic designs of eminent Russian emigre artist Mikhail Shemyakin.

Pyotr Fomenko has been rehearsing his new production of Jean Giraudoux's ""The Mad Woman of Chaillot,"" in which one can see Fomenko's own clearly delineated self-portrait.

Mikhail Gorbachev's aptly named President restaurant, located in the Gorbachev Foundation building on Leningradsky Prospekt, is a shrine to the first and only president of the Soviet Union.

ShizLong, the newly opened oxygen-bar-cum-solarium-cum-beauty-salon tucked away in the back streets of Kropotkinskaya, makes you wonder what kind of clientele this place was made for.

Marvels of animation abound in ""Monsters, Inc.,"" an amusing family fable from Pixar, the high-tech fun factory that produced the ""Toy Story"" movies and ""A Bug's Life."" Each of its films has trumped the last in digital artistry, but when it comes to irreverent humor and real heart, ""Monsters"" doesn't quite measure up.