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Summer 2008

Tower Records

Late last year, Moscow had that moment—the one that comes, with dull predictability, for any major city in the throes of a construction boom. It approved a proposal to create the world’s largest building. British architect Norman Foster’s transparent, volcano-shaped complex will occupy 27 million square feet, four times the floor space of the Pentagon.

The Beet Generation

Meet the New Boss

Going Out on Top

Michael Idov loiters in Moscow on the eve of Dmitry Medvedev’s coronation
Lena Berkova, Russia’s favorite porn star: “I’m working on starting my own political party”
Column
 Conservative Comrades Nina Khrushcheva on Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, unlikely friends
Made in Russia
 Sidecar on the Rocks This issue’s icon: the perfect getaway vehicle for you and a sidekick
Travel
 Le Tour de Mort Merrily pedaling around the Romanovs’ deathplace
Film
 Epic Fail War is cool, foreigners are gay, and other lessons from Russia’s new crop of historical epics
Art
 The Refuseniks Russia’s “Poor Art” Makes Trash Monumental
Food
 Borscht Reduction Molecular gastronomist Anatoly Komm will teach Russians to eat—whether they like it or not
Music
 Everything Goes As Planned Yegor Letov was Russia’s Kurt Cobain before (and after) he became Russia’s Louis Farrakhan
Art
 Color Revolutions If you think color film didn’t exist in 1909, you’re right. But that didn’t stop Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky

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