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10/06/2006

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Far From Heaven

""Euphoria,"" a tale of adultery that became the sole Russian contender at this year's Venice film festival, opens in theaters.

Wanted

Sergei is a private detective in St. Petersburg, the kind of man you go to when you want someone followed.

Voice of Hope

Fans remember Anna German, a Polish singer who became a star in the Soviet Union while keeping quiet about her tragic past.

England's Dreaming

The New British Film Festival features drag queens, football hooligans and the IRA.

Music Without Limits

The experimental musicians of Psychic TV put on a release party for their new CD, ""Live in Russia,"" at Ikra.

Russian Roulette

Even the Kremlin had its doubts about Nikita Khrushchev during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, a new book by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali shows.

Salon

According to Dmitry Bykov's ""ZhD,"" Russians are descended from a warlike race whose only gift is the ability to wage ineffective wars and build power hierarchies.

The Master of Fonts

In a new book, Yury Gordon tells the story of Russian fonts - and argues that Cyrillic letters are visually inferior to those of the Latin alphabet.

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Two new shows discover innovative - and sometimes provocative - uses for music.

Lost and Found

A new retrospective unearths seven nearly forgotten movies from the 1990s, a time when the Russian film industry was in a state of freefall.

Image

This Saturday is President Vladimir Putin's 54th birthday, and the tabloid newspaper Express-Gazeta is celebrating with a contest called ""Children Draw Putin.""

In the Spotlight

When Seven Days magazine visits celebrity homes, a compulsory section is the photo of the shiny new bathroom, which is understandable to anyone who has lived with Soviet plumbing.


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