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Watch video clips of the brother and sister team, Vova and Olga Galchenko, as they grow up juggling together. They juggle behind their backs, over their shoulders, through their legs, and in dozens of other ways - and they make it look so easy
...display:block; font-size:1.5em; } Vova juggling with 3, 4, and 5 balls This page is enhanced with Flash. Click Here to Upgrade your Flash Player...
...IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded live at the premiere last year in Amsterdam...
Russian newspapers give prominent play to horror stories about religion designed to equate the practice of Christianity with darkest superstition. The latest, timed for the Christmas season when many Russian infants are baptized, was the trial of Father Scherbatov for the murder of Vova Marchenko...
...Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...