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...weekend DJ nights and the opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus in a country where "wine" tends to mean a cloying beverage that's almost unbearably sweet. The food is superior too: the chef delivers a genteel take on Russian home cooking...
...author; in New York City. Rybakov started writing stories part time while driving a truck. His children's book The Dirk, published in 1950, was an immediate success and admired by Stalin. On the other hand, it took years for him to get his epic novel Children of the Arbat published. When the work--which freely discusses Stalin's terrors--finally appeared in 1986, it sold more than 1 million copies in the Soviet Union...
...student who lives in Krasnodar, a midsize agricultural town in southern Russia. Each summer he goes to Moscow to earn money to pay for his education by drawing caricatures of people who stroll past his tiny fold-up chair tucked next to the sidewalk in the capital's busy Arbat Street. "I'm not going to vote," he declares, voicing an attitude that seems to be shared by many of Russia's young people. "Yeltsin will win anyway, so I don't think my vote would make a big difference." Also, like some other young Russians, Kovolev seems to have...
...form of $100 bills. Everyone from small savers to businessmen to members of the Mafia relies on hundreds, so the changes in the bill are causing high anxiety. Last week Maria Meshkova, a single mother, was in line outside the Novogorodsky currency exchange in Moscow's Old Arbat Street. There was fear in her voice as she explained she had already changed her meager supply of $100 bills into smaller U.S. notes. Now she was back trying to split her last remaining $50 bill "just in case, you never know." She feared that the new hundred might somehow make...
...microeconomic sense, that was also the case recently on Moscow's busy Old Arbat, where currency-exchange dealer Ilya was inspecting what appeared to be a legitimate $100 note. "It's a fake," he said. Turning the bill over, he pointed to the o in United States of America: it was too close to the f. At Kredobank, a privately held Russian bank, a Moscow casino operator recently tried to deposit $10,000 in cash. It wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Kredobank, like most Russian banks, confiscates forged currency but usually does not report the incident...