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...area in which individualism is exalted and freedom of expression is glorified, but to define art as such would be to take artistic freedom for granted. “The Art of Subversion: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union,” an exhibit at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies running until Jan. 22, showcases artists that struggled to uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task of constructing representational scaffolding...
...public affairs officer - and never got involved in the nuts and bolts of building rockets. She is best known by most people as the person who in 2002 competed with boy-band singer Lance Bass for the chance to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. Neither of them ever left the ground...
...Russian businessman Alexander Kazakov, who makes his money selling luxury home furnishings, and his wife have come to the annual Moscow Millionaire Fair looking for a carpet for the front hall of their newly remodeled apartment in the center of the city. But they're having trouble deciding on colors and how many knots they want per square inch. Then there's the matter of whether they can actually afford to spend $155,000 on a carpet at the moment. "No one knows what will happen next with the financial crisis," Kazakov says. "Everyone is waiting to see." His wife...
...prices and Russia's nouveaux riches, the Moscow event had become the jewel in the crown. No wonder. According to the 2008 World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, Russia is home to one of the world's fastest-growing populations of millionaires. Last year the number of Russian "high net-worth individuals" (people with a worth of more than $1 million, excluding their primary residence) reached 136,000, a 14% rise over...
...wealthy visitors at the fair have noticed a change this year. "Last year the show was more powerful," says Joseph Morchic, a Russian businessman based in New Jersey. "Everyone here thinks there will be a crisis, but they don't know what it is yet. My friends talk about being afraid, but I don't think they are." Morchic points out that Russia has been through worse before - and bounced back. "You can't compare this crisis to the one in 1998," he says, referring to the year the ruble collapsed and Russia defaulted on tens of billions of dollars...