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Zvuki Mu

This morning I had a simple, nostalgic little thought: What ever happened to Звуки Му? Well, with the internet at my fingertips, it didn’t take long to discover that, far from going up in smoke as a flash in the … Continue reading

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Konchalovsky

Last year the acclaimed Polish actor Daniel Olbrichsky turned sixty, and the mayor of Warsaw gave him a present he still hasn’t gotten over: he could pick any theater, any play, any actors, any director, Olbrichsky would play the lead, and … Continue reading

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Ratings

Two Soviet-era literary giants went head-to-head on Russian television and battled to a draw. The miniseries based on Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle drew about the same number of viewers as The Golden Calf, based on a work by the … Continue reading

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Cold

While much of North America basks in unseasonably warm temperatures, Russia is enduring one of the coldest winters on record. As usual, Russians are doing more than coping. In Moscow, snowmen appeared in the Arbat and thousands protested against nationalism. … Continue reading

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