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...what you like about Russian President Vladimir Putin--although you'd be well advised to keep it polite--but he has certainly re-established his country's credibility as a great power. Ten years ago, Russia was in a state of disarray reminiscent of the early 17th century "Time of Troubles." Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, was like a caricature of the disastrous Czar Boris Godunov, on whose watch Russia suffered hunger and humiliation. Plagued by heart trouble and alcohol abuse, Yeltsin had secured re-election in 1996 only by turning the privatization of the Russian energy sector into...
...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...
...Then Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin, Russia got serious, and the Moscow-to-Zurich run lost its cachet...
...Vladimir Horowitz. Patsy Seybert Indianapolis...
British investigators aren't the only folks doggedly pursuing the murder case of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in November after trying to publish an anti--Vladimir Putin book. Also hot on the trail is JOHNNY DEPP'S production company, Infinitum Nihil, which will adapt Sasha's Story: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy, a forthcoming book by a London journalist. While Litvinenko's dramatic life story may drive Depp to ditch his Pirates of the Caribbean eye patch for a fur hat, Miami Vice director Michael Mann has taken on a competing project, Death...