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...just hours ahead of the final, Moscow's riot police squashed a gay-pride rally, hauling away about 40 demonstrators. Critics said that clamping down on gay activists at Eurovision seemed decidedly out of tune with the show's mission to promote peace and harmony among the competing countries. As Rybak said himself, "Why did [the police] spend all their energy stopping gays in Moscow when the biggest gay parade was here tonight...
...Want to Put In," seemed to mock Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the wake of the conflict in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. On May 15, the chief of the Russian jury withdrew after he was spotted enjoying a caviar lunch with eventual winner Rybak in Moscow, potentially compromising his impartiality. (Read "Eurovision in Russia: Politics and Pop Music...
With a 360-ft.-high (110 m) steel flame swooping up from its roof, topped by a Jetsons-esque rocket, Moscow's Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics has opened again, after more than three years of expansion and renovation - one small step in Russia's effort to claim a more prominent place on the world stage by highlighting its past glory in space exploration...
...Wandering past model rockets, orange cosmonaut suits emblazoned with red U.S.S.R. emblems and a diorama of happy cosmonaut mannequins sitting around a campfire next to a crashed space capsule waiting for pickup, Lynn Nordstrom of Albuquerque, N.M., and her two sons - in Moscow for the Eurovision song contest - say they are enjoying their visit. But "after looking at this, I'm afraid of the Egypt syndrome, where all you do is talk about how great you used to be," Nordstrom says. "The museum is terrific, but you need to look to the future. My whole youth was spent hearing about...
...Others who are familiar with both papers disagree. "The social issues are decorative additions, but the document was not significantly revised," says the Carnegie Moscow Center's Petrov. "Even so, the idea of returning Russia to greatness [is now] less important in comparison to the economic crisis. In the end, in the middle of the crisis there is no real reason to formulate this strategy because no one knows what will happen between now and 2020." And although Russia remains on the offensive on many fronts - from nukes to energy and the Arctic - continuing negotiations with the U.S. may mean...