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06/10/2005

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Global Eye

At first glance, it might seem absurd to compare Augustus to the gang of apish, third-rate poltroons now camped out along the Potomac.

Bound for Success

Newcomers to Moscow try to avoid the pitfalls of big-city life in a pair of new plays by two major playwrights.

Twilight of the Gods

The Mariinsky makes Moscow opera history with back-to-back performances of all four operas in Richard Wagner's ""Ring"" cycle.

Trans-Atlantic Unions

In a new documentary, Russian women vent about life in the United States with their American husbands.

Salon

Ismail Kadare, winner of the Man International Booker Prize, studied at Moscow's Gorky Literary Institute. So can the Russian literary establishment bask in the rays of Kadare's newfound fame?

Mail-Order Bride

The British ethnic comedy takes a zany twist in Marina Lewycka's novel about an elderly Ukrainian immigrant who turns to the old country for a wife half his age.

Wanted

Vladimir is one of the many e-mail scamsters trying to tempt gullible Westerners with some of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's cash.

Below the Belt

""The Vagina Monologues"" is about to have its Russian debut. But will the sexually explicit, pro-feminist work by U.S. playwright Eve Ensler be lost in translation?

Cartoon Time

Bugs and naughty babies rule in the ""Best of Pilot"" animation screenings, which feature a selection of short films from Moscow's acclaimed Pilot Studio.

An Outside Chance

As nations joust for recognition at the 51st Venice Biennale, Russia is bringing a contingent of artists who have, until now, had a relatively low profile on the country's art scene.

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Performers from the Bolshoi Theater dance on Pushkin Square on Monday, in a celebration commemorating the 206th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin.

Global Eye

At first glance, it might seem absurd to compare Augustus to the gang of apish, third-rate poltroons now camped out along the Potomac.


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