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06/24/2005

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Global Eye

Iraq, once a modern and prosperous nation, has suffered ""one of the most dramatic declines in human welfare in recent history"" during the U.S.-led occupation, the UN says.

Image

Two sculptures by British artist Tony Cragg bear an eerie resemblance to a Soviet-era building looming in the distance.

Troubled Waters

A retired sailor watches his household disintegrate in the Fomenko Studio's staging of ""Heartbreak House.""

Art Brigade

A husband-and-wife team hopes to make Moscow a cheerier place by painting park benches and grim Soviet-era high-rises.

The Great Outdoors

The Moscow Symphony Orchestra offers a series of crowd-pleasing concerts under the open sky, while other ensembles play in historic estates throughout Moscow.

Salon

Mikhail Shishkin's latest novel has been pronounced the winner of the National Bestseller prize. Yet ""Maidenhair"" is a difficult book, unlikely to become a bestseller.

A Still Small Voice

It takes a simple cleaning woman from the corridors of power to bear witness to the madness and melancholy of Stalin's rule in Gillian Slovo's new novel.

Wanted

Clients began to call right away. Most of them were lonely, tired women over 40. But Sasha's first appointment as a gigolo didn't go successfully.

Urban Impressions

From a burning Manezh to the doughy delights of a bread factory, the annual ""Silver Camera"" exhibition looks back at a year in the life of the Russian capital.

Fantasies in Fabric

As a rare exhibition of tapestries comes to town, a French art dealer hopes that his 16th-century wall rugs will become the new must-have-item among wealthy Russians.


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