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05/13/2005

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Wanted

When Alexander returned to Moscow some years later, the girl came back to him -- if not in a dream, then at least whenever he went to buy sweatbands and other sporty items at his old workplace.

Tunnel Visions

As the Moscow metro turns 70, city residents celebrate by publishing slick photo albums, opening a historical exhibition and even holding a Miss Metro beauty contest.

Do It Yourself

With no one to publish their creations, young comic book authors fall back on a time-honored Russian solution: creating samizdat editions of their works.

Last Chance

International film critics launch a last-ditch appeal to save Moscow's Cinema Museum, which is threatened with closure this summer.

Salon

In Russia, the translator's profession has turned from a distinguished, well-paid occupation into an almost mechanical job.

Rooms of Their Own

Smart, stubborn and sexually active, the women of Ludmila Ulitskaya's fiction have done their fair share to redefine Russian literature in feminine terms.

Real-Life Hero

An assortment of patriotic music by Sergei Prokofiev is creatively staged in a new production at Helikon Opera.

Avant-Garde

One of the highlights of the AVANT 2005 indie music festival is an electronic score to a classic Eisenstein film.

War Stories

A mother evacuated from Stalingrad, a fiendish fireman and a disturbed captain are among the characters in Valery Ogorodnikov's second film.

Above the Law

A grim 19th-century farce about police brutality is eerily reminiscent of events in contemporary Russia.

Image

Five large canvases by the trendy painting duo of Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov went on display in Moscow last week.

Global Eye

Even as Jeb Bush basked in the bootlicking adulation of his Republican audience, his peculiar sense of ""right and wrong"" was on vivid display in a Florida courtroom.


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