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...pivotal point came on Jan. 30, when an opposition rally in the western city of Kaliningrad attracted 10,000 people, an incredibly high turnout for Russia's docile political culture and likely the biggest protest in at least five years...
...remains, of course, the most popular politician in Russia by far, as well as the most powerful. But even the mainstream opposition sees an opening. Take the Yabloko Party. It had led the pro-Western forces in parliament throughout the 1990s before being voted out in 2007 in an election it says was rigged. Kaliningrad has helped turn its focus to the streets. "The outlying regions are in a better mood for protests," its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, tells TIME. "Kaliningrad shed light on all the vices of the current regime and its economic policies...
...stage, and after all that time, it was Quentin Tarantino, the master of casting familiar actors in revelatory roles (see John Travolta, Kurt Russell, Robert Forster), who gave Waltz his juiciest piece of work. As Colonel Hans Landa, the "Jew hunter" of last year's World War II spaghetti western Inglourious Basterds, the 53-year-old Austrian delivered a charmingly evil performance. He is the favorite to win this year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar. (See TIME's 2010 Oscar Predictions...
Asked to name the beleaguered Western currency that sits near a 10-month low against the dollar and has lost 7% against the greenback already this year, most people would probably plump for the euro. They'd be wrong. Europe's single currency - walloped by the big economic problems in Greece - is hardly having a stellar year. But for a currency well and truly in the pickle, look no further than the pound...
...rice-paddy view is something of a status symbol in Bali's trendy Seminyak restaurant row, where a high level of Western cookery competes for tourist dollars. The six-month-old Sardine takes the experience one better: you can watch stalks growing under the stars while seated in a bamboo pavilion with massive thatched eaves handcrafted by artisans from an up-country village. It's Trader Vic's, only updated...