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02/25/2005

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Global Eye

There is a simple reason why patriots on both the right and the left are stymied: because the center is rotten to its well-wadded, self-righteous, wilfully ignorant core.

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In a documentary soon to be broadcast on the Kultura television channel, pupils play at a Moscow boarding school for the children of Communist Party leaders.

Wanted

The ad has one word and a phone number, as if buying a bank were as simple as in Monopoly, but without as much responsibility.

Fallen Star

The long-hidden diary of singer Vadim Kozin, one of the Soviet Union's greatest stars in the 1930s, captures his plunge from fame to the gulag.

Secret Agent

Detective Erast Fandorin, the hero of Boris Akunin's popular series of mystery novels, hits the silver screen in a big-budget crowd-pleaser.

Flowering Passions

A tale of true love against the odds, Alexandre Dumas' ""La Dame aux Camelias"" gets a romantic new staging.

Knight's Game

The merry wives are the highlight in the Bolshoi's new performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Falstaff.""

Wide Canvas

Seven centuries of Italian and Russian art are on display in a major exhibition at the Pushkin Museum.

Salon

Sergei Lukyanenko, author of ""Night Watch"" (Nochnoi Dozor), was recently awarded the title of ""Fantasy Writer of the Year.""

The Escape Artist

Was the author of Azerbaijan's national novel a Jew? A Muslim? A Weimar literary light? Deception was a matter of survival for chameleon Lev Nussimbaum.

Italian Treats

Films based on dramatic real-life stories dominate this year's NICE festival.


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