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Politics
July 1, 12:00 AM

Gorbachev Calls For Yet Another Prohibition

by Tatyana Bokova-Foley

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet head of state, responsible for the most reviled and admired political act of the 80's -- the prohibition -- called on national television for the government to limit production and sales of liquor. Russians are way to drunk, apparently. According to Gorbachev, the nation "is dying out because of alcohol." During the last Soviet years, alcohol production reached the unprecedented levels of 14 liters per person. In 2008, it reached 17 liters (4.5 gallons) per person.

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Travel
July 1, 8:00 AM

Moscow Is Getting Ready for Obama

by Tatyana Bokova-Foley
Barack Obama's 3-day trip to Moscow is to begin on July 6, but the US President is already the center of attention in Russia. Bolshoi Gorod, a popular Moscow bi-weekly, published the "Travel guide for Obama issue", where it tracks the President's route and suggests some tourist sights (Obama is expected to speak at the university graduation and hold talks with Prime Minister Putin and president Medvedev.)
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News
June 30, 12:00 AM

Casinos In Russia Are Expected to Close Tonight

by Tatyana Bokova-Foley
According to the law that comes into effect today at 12:00 AM, all Russian casinos are supposed to close. The antivice plan introduced by Vladimir Putin allows casinos and slot machines to operate only in four regions of Russia, attempting to create the US-style gambling zones. As of today, neither of the zones is ready to host casinos. The delays were caused by lack of government financing and interest from real estate developers, hit by the financial crisis. However, the government has denied repeated pleas from the gambling industry to push back the July 1 deadline.
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June 30, 2:22 AM
Jason Blavatnik wrote: Casinos say that 400.000 people will become unemployed. They are right, but the people who work at casinos -- the…
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June 27, 12:00 AM

Dude, Your Dad is Weird

by Marina Galperina
To premiere our new video section, here's a Russian video-reportage about policeman Eugene who's been raising his daughters to perform dangerous stunts, lovingly subtitled by RUSSIA! Watch the circus-man without a circus as he throws darts at his daughters, has them walk on swords and broken glass, and assaults them fire and daggers. It's kind of sweet, actually.
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June 29, 9:25 PM
Mikhail Sheferd wrote: The video works and perfectly illustrates the mental imbalance of Russian law enforcement.
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Live from LJ
June 26, 9:00 AM

06/26/09: Samovar for Your Car, Stalin Billboards and a Superblond

by Marina Galperina
The Russian blogosphere conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ. Each week, RUSSIA! scans the chatter and brings you the top five topics.
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July 18, 1:13 AM
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Sport
June 26, 12:00 AM

The Tallest Russian Oligarch Is Possibly Buying The New Jersey Nets

by Tatyana Bokova-Foley
The Russian invasion into the sports industry has finally crossed the Atlantic. After buying the famed Chelsea and Arsenal soccer clubs, the Russians are approaching the sacred American ground - the NBA. It has been reported that Mikhail Prokhorov, the 6-foot-9 Russia's richest man is buying the Nets.
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September 25, 8:23 AM
Alisa Krutovsky wrote: Voice of America did a very interesting coverage of Andrey Prokhorov's setting to buy into New Jersey Nets.…
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Politics
June 25, 11:00 AM

Khodorkovsky To Answer All Your Questions

by Marina Galperina
Tomorrow, Mikhail Khodorkovsky will take part in a bizarre online interview. On his fifth birthday spent in prison, he will answer all Gazeta-reader submitted questions - nearly a thousand of them.
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Music
June 23, 9:00 PM

Gorbachev Records Album, World Survives

by Marina Galperina
Gorbachev—one of Russia's most simultaneously reverenced and reviled political figures—recently showed his tender side by recording an album of romantic ballads. Sold exclusively at a charitable auction, it's unavailable to the general public, but thanks to us and the internet, you are now welcome to sneak-peek of some musical glasnost.
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June 26, 10:23 AM
Ella G wrote: Я почему-то плакала, когда слушала. Всегда было видно, что он относится к Раисе не по-советским меркам официальнои…
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Live from LJ
June 19, 6:00 AM

06/19/09: Yachts, Mayonnaise and Other Irrelevancies

by Marina Galperina
The Russian blogosphere conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ. Each week, RUSSIA! scans the chatter and brings you the top five topics.
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Art
June 18, 5:00 PM

All in All, It's Just Another Kiss on the Wall

by Marina Galperina
Brezhnev and Honecker's ferocious make-out painted on the Berlin Wall has just been white-washed. But do not fear - the deadly lovers will be back in all their symbolic glory as Russian artist Dmitri Vrubel recreates the mural in time for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall.
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June 19, 7:18 AM
Mona Simmons wrote: Gee, I love this painting. It tells so much about that epoch.
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Art
June 15, 10:00 PM

The Bull, the Bear, Art, War, Sex and Trouble

by Marina Galperina
Bad politics breeds good reactionary art. Throw in some pornography, profanity, and hard-headed art-activists, and - as the director of the Central Art House learned last weekend - there'll be a public shit storm. The lesson: next time, don't invite the Moscow art-group War to participate unless you're down with conceptual art orgies... or willing to call the cops.
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June 18, 5:29 AM
Jason Blavatnik wrote: Russia is the only country capable of producing actual contemporary art, because it's on the social edge, its…
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Film
June 12, 9:40 PM

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Retro-Future!

by Marina Galperina
Russia's most famous contemporary director Timur Bekmambetov is due to release his newest slick flick in December and it's about a flying black Volga fighting crime. Knight Rider, you're about to be totally pwned.
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Live from LJ
June 12, 8:20 PM

06/12/09: Drunk Oligarchs, Shiny Pop Stars, More Terrible Stuff

by Marina Galperina
The Russian blogosphere conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ. Each week, RUSSIA! scans the chatter and brings you the top five topics.
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Art
June 11, 10:00 AM

How To Steal A Million

by Julia Ioffe
Today, a Moscow court issued an arrest warrant for Igor Popov, the deputy to the artistic director of the venerable, historical, mythical Moscow Art Theater, founded by Constantin Stanislavski in 1898 and home, once upon a time, to Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Media
June 9, 6:00 PM

Update: Chrystal Callahan is Real, Premiers Show on Chechen TV

by Marina Galperina
Canadian model Chrystal Callahan's weekly program premiered last Sunday, as we presumed. The fifteen minute show focused on positive news items and local culture of the Chechen Republic. Additionally, Callahan's background reveals the unlikely host as a bit more likely than originally thought.
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