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Eurovision, which most famously gave the world ABBA, is a much-anticipated annual pop music competition with contestants representing countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the Eurovision finals was a hand puppet named Dustin the Turkey. Russia's own contestant was Dima Bilan, a star so established that a BBC commentator sniped that it was as if Britain had sent Amy Winehouse to the competition (well, if she was allowed to travel). Bilan...
...across Europe are allowed to phone or text in their rankings of the contestants, with the proviso that a country's voters cannot vote for their own country's representative. Yet this has led controversial bloc voting in an effort to prevent others from winning. Says Alexander Panaiotov, a Russian pop star: "It's the biggest musical event of the year. Of course it's politicized." A case in point, he says, is Russia and Ukraine. "Russia doesn't care if, say, Bosnia wins, but if Ukraine wins, it's a scandal." Ukraine and Russia have been scrapping ferociously over...
...classic enclosed-quad design...if you want to show people a Harvard House, bring them here. This place was built to be gorgeous in green ivy and stunning in snow. If you want a stock Harvard story to tell, just give them the brief rundown of the famous Russian (now replica) bells. Lowell is built like a fortress, and on the inside it feels like a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of Harvard life...
...Health Ministry reports that Russian adults have added an average of 4.5 pounds (2 kg) over the past ten years, while children have added a little over two pounds (1 kg). The cobbled-together list of advice offers ways to help that, including the suggestion that people should take time to scrub their potatoes and keep the skins on rather than peeling them in the usual style. "Our wise ancestors boiled and baked their potatoes with their skins," the advice scolds...
...said that foods such as sausages and hotdogs, made popular during the shortages experienced in Soviet times, should now be eliminated. So too should typically Western foods such as potato chips, hamburgers, pizza and soft drinks. The best way forward, it seems to suggest, is a return to traditional Russian culinary heritage...