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Fall 2007

The Rolling “R”

Almost every major American actor has, at some point, tried on a Russian accent or delivered a couple of lines in Russian. It’s true. Tom Cruise? Spoke it in the first five minutes of the original Mission: Impossible. Bruce Willis? Tried it in The Jackal. Val Kilmer? The Saint. Al Pacino? The Devil’s Advocate. Almost all of them sucked.

Bathing with Marat

The Hardest-Working Russian in Show Business

A Beautiful Lie

Guelman is on the National Liberal Party’s list of Russia’s 100 top enemies, and last year he was almost beaten to death when thugs attacked him in his gallery.
With tsar-caliber treasures like these, who says we can’t have our own Tsar of Pop in 25-year-old Dima Bilan?
Last year, Oleg Vidov and Joan Borsten Vidov researched and restored an enormous trove of Soviet propaganda cartoons dating from 1924 all the way to the perestroika years.
Column
 Memoirs of the Starlet Commander Late this spring, I caught the news that thousands of schoolchildren in Moscow had celebrated the 85th anniversary of the Young Pioneer organization.
Architecture
 Real Estate: You'll get used to it One of the many lovable things about St. Petersburg is its lack of a glassy, modern downtown. Gazprom is about to change that in one fell swoop.
Column
 The Russophobe: The Devil in Russia’s Details The devil is not only in Russia’s details, he’s got a mansion there – and he’s putting in stables.
Made in Russia
 Made in Russia: The Twelve-Sided Glass Of all iconic objects of the Soviet era — the orb of the Sputnik, the needle of the Ostankino TV tower — none speaks to the Russian heart as clearly and loudly as the Glass.
Food
 Summer Soups As soon as the summer heat hits, these two chilled concoctions appear at nearly every dining table in Russia.

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