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...different poetic image. Each different mistake frames the photograph differently.” The exhibition is also a study of movement and space. The titles of most of the pieces involve motion, such as “Leaving Los Angeles,” or “Leaving Saint Petersburg.” At the same time, Boym superimposes images on others, displacing them in location and time. Musing on this pattern, Boym suggests, “Maybe it’s a condition of modern life—an immigrant sensibility.” Boym says that she prefers...
...Days that Jennifer Mee, a St. Petersburg, Fla., teen, suffered from constant hiccuping that stopped only when she slept...
...Confined by the riot police to a downtown square, the protesters, who chanted "Russia without Putin!" "Down with the corrupt authorities!" and "Revolution!" broke through the police cordons and marched down Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg's main avenue. Squad cars wedged in the angry marchers ranks, and riot police moved in, wielding clubs and throwing smoke grenades. It took several hours to disperse the crowds and restore police control over the area. The authorities later claimed that 50 protesters were detained. The Other Russia, however, states that at least two hundred protesters were taken into custody and beaten, with hundreds...
...While the OMON riot cops were dispersing and beating up the Other Russia in St. Petersburg, several hundred people gathered for a quieter but no less emotionally packed protest action in Moscow. They were mostly senior citizens, who argue that they have worked all their lives for the state and now are dying because they can't survive on the state's meager pensions...
...order to prevent the dissent from growing into conspicuous melees in main cities like the one this weekend. But the money doled out then has been now superseded by the growing costs of life. And a new such massive financial infusion might not prevent both Saturday's St. Petersburg's street fighting and a peaceful Moscow rally from becoming a harbinger of coming instability in the year of the tightly controlled national and regional elections...