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The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.

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Issue 4035 | 20 Nov 2008

Call-Center Drama For One Person Only
By Maria Levina / Special to The Moscow Times An unusual offering from the New European Theatre Festival transports you across the globe with a single phone call. The thrill starts when one is brought into a hotel room and left sitting there wondering what will happen next, but where it ends is different for everyone.

Issue 4034 | 19 Nov 2008

Avant-Garde Heirs Go on Show
By Marina Darmaros / Special to The Moscow Times The Jack of Diamonds was a group of artists that became the main exponent of the Russian avant-garde before the Revolution, a time when nobody imagined how short the first breath of art for art's sake in Russian painting would last."Heirs to Masters of the Jack of Diamonds" runs through Nov. 30 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Issue 4033 | 18 Nov 2008

Moskva Reads: Famed Bookstore Turns 50
By Jessica Lee / Special to The Moscow Times Fifty years after it first opened its doors, the Moskva bookstore celebrates its anniversary with an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery.

Issue 4032 | 17 Nov 2008

"Antidote" Heals Office Woes
By Elena Fuetsch / Special to The Moscow Times Performance group Liquid Theatre show an energized office that is as wild as the circus and comes complete with laughs and acrobatics.

Issue 4030 | 13 Nov 2008

Piano Master Brendel Makes Last Trip to Moscow
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer This fall, the 77-year-old Brendel has set off on one final concert tour before retiring from public performances.

Issue 4029 | 12 Nov 2008

Tajik Songs of Sky And Destiny at Fest
By John Wendle / Staff Writer Over the next few days, the sounds of the deep south of Tajikistan, the plains of Mongolia and the mountains of Kyrgyzstan will be heard around Moscow as part of the Rozamira festival.

Issue 4028 | 11 Nov 2008

A Stage Filled With Clowns, But Not A Circus
By Ezekiel Pfeifer / Staff Writer It's the story of a family of six, struggling to make ends meet. They say not a word as they go about their daily business but still express joy and unhappiness in their interactions and at times even break into mysterious, halting dances. Oh -- and they're all clowns.

Issue 4025 | 6 Nov 2008

Revolutionary Pelevin Story Reworked for Stage
By Finn Cohen / Special to The Moscow Times In one Viktor Pelevin story, a Moscow bathroom attendant questions the meaning of life and accidentally summons a river of feces that drowns the city.

Issue 4023 | 1 Nov 2008

Cartoons Aplenty for Both Big and Small
By Ezekiel Pfeifer / Staff Writer Cartoons are not just for kids.

Issue 4021 | 30 Oct 2008

Early Morning Call To Watch Elections
By Elena Fuetsch / Special to The Moscow Times Democrats Abroad will hold what they hope is a celebration party.

Issue 4020 | 29 Oct 2008

Halloween in Moscow: Tunes, Treats and Freaks
By Ezekiel Pfeifer, Elena Feutch / Special to The Moscow Times Muscovites in search of a scintillating spook can celebrate Halloween this Friday night with musical creatures, dancing freaks and even the ghost of a Michael Jackson past.

Issue 4019 | 28 Oct 2008

Moscow's Demolished, Not Restored on Show
By Marina Kamenev / Special to The Moscow Times The 18th-century mansion on a small lane near Chistiye Prudy metro station is inconspicuous, hidden away from view.

Issue 4018 | 27 Oct 2008

Hungarian's Innovative Action Shots at Manezh
By Jessica Lee / Special to The Moscow Times Head to the Manezh this month and month to feast your eyes on photos by Martin Munkacsi, a man who inspired photographers such as Richard Avedon and revolutionized fashion photography.

Issue 4016 | 23 Oct 2008

Fashion Week Sees Russian Designers Dominate
By , Elena Fuetsch / Special to The Moscow Times Long-legged men and women will slip in and out of their clothes as fast as they can close to the Kremlin, as Moscow Fashion Week takes over Gostiny Dvor and dozens of designers from Russia and abroad show off next year's spring and summer collections.

Issue 4015 | 22 Oct 2008

Leigh, Firth Star in Brit Film Festival
By Ezekiel Pfeifer / Staff Writer A grab bag of the latest and strangest British cinema will reach the big screens of Moscow's Formula Kino theater next Tuesday, as the British Council's 9th Annual Festival of New British Film kicks off for a weeklong run.

Issue 4014 | 21 Oct 2008

Moscow's Past, Seen Through a New Lens
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times Travel back in time in silly glasses this week at the Old Moscow 3-D exhibition, an outdoor display at Kolomenskoye Park.

Issue 4013 | 20 Oct 2008

Artist Shuns Modern Art in Favor of Old School
By Elena Fuetsch / Special to The Moscow Times British artist Michael Sayles goes back to ""old school"" techniques without sacrificing originality in his current exposition, ""The Black Drawings,"" at the CafО des Artistes restaurant. Currently, 47 works of Sayles' decorate the walls of the restaurant.

Issue 4011 | 16 Oct 2008

Munch, Bacon and Warhol at Sotheby's Show
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer There was little evidence of the financial crisis inside the new branch of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, at Gogolevsky Bulvar, where Sotheby's preview of its upcoming November auctions is exhibited.

Issue 4009 | 14 Oct 2008

Looking Down on 1970s Lithuania
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times If you don't know what it was like to see Lithuania in the 1970s from a bird's-eye view, then let Antanas Sutkus show you.

Issue 4008 | 13 Oct 2008

Putin's Zaporozhets Steals the Show at Avtoville
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer A tiny 36-year-old car with vinyl seats and an interior that reeks of petrol attracts far more attention than the Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces at Avtoville, a glossy new car museum that opened in August.

Issue 4004 | 7 Oct 2008

Modern Theater On Show At Festival
By Maria Levina / Special to The Moscow Times The Territory festival turns Moscow into a bustling theater workshop each October, offering aficionados a chance to see the latest in contemporary theater.

Issue 4003 | 6 Oct 2008

Kremlin Cup Brings Top Tennis Stars to Moscow
By John Wendle / Staff Writer Despite the tournament's name and the red brick towers emerging from a sea of tennis balls on its web site, the Kremlin Cup will not be played on or anywhere near Red Square.

Issue 4001 | 2 Oct 2008

Festival Promises Fun for Family
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer The Domashny Ochag Festival at the Central House of Artists promises to be the best event for the family this weekend.

Issue 4000 | 1 Oct 2008

Museum With a One Track Mind
By Peter Slezkine / Special to The Moscow Times On summer evenings, Moscow's central metro stations are packed with camera-touting tourists and stick-waving guides who treat the metro as a museum and use their ticket as an entrance fee.

Issue 3999 | 30 Sep 2008

Kenna's Ethereal Shots Get Moscow Exposure
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times 5{ is one of the great landscape photographers, and his work can be seen in dozens of museum collections all over the world. Currently, 40 works by Kenna are on display in Moscow at the Pobeda Gallery in the Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art.

Issue 3997 | 26 Sep 2008

Dog Dances, Canine Costumes on Display
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer For the past week, Olga Proskuryakova has been organizing dog-show activities that most people would have a hard time imagining.

Issue 3996 | 25 Sep 2008

A Rare Place for Bargains and Hidden Treasures
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer Flea markets, while common in Paris and in London, are difficult to find in the center of Moscow, and many travel all the way to Izmailovo to search for an antique or bargain. But starting today is the 10th annual Flea Market, which is taking place in the T-Modul shopping center at Belorusskaya metro station.

Issue 3995 | 24 Sep 2008

Sashaying Across the Showroom, Moscow-Style
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer In the West, a showroom is thought of as an exhibition space where wholesale buyers can check out designers' latest collections and choose those that they want to sell in their own stores.

Issue 3994 | 23 Sep 2008

Taking a Shortcut Through Amateur Cinema
By Ezekiel Pfeifer / Staff Writer A kitchen operetta, a visual contemplation of entropy and proof that music will save the world -- all these themes and more await film-goers attending the first annual ARTkino All-Russia Festival of Amateur Short Films, which is set to open Tuesday night at Khudozhestvenny Theatre.

Issue 3993 | 22 Sep 2008

Survival in A State of Shocking Reality
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times Tony Matelli's solo exhibition ""Survival"" is showing for the first time in Moscow at the Gary Tatintsian Gallery.

Issue 3991 | 18 Sep 2008

Families Celebrate The Joys Of Life
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times Lifestyle magazine Seasons is putting on the ""Joys of Life"" festival at the city's Hermitage Gardens, offering an array of events focused on all things joyful.

Issue 3990 | 17 Sep 2008

The Troubled Life of a Party Secretary's Daughter
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer The It Girl of her time, Galina Brezhneva took advantage of her father's position as party secretary to enjoy a lavish lifestyle.

Issue 3989 | 16 Sep 2008

Lonely Figures Visit Russia for the First Time
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer The lonely figures of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti grace some of the grandest museums in the world, from Tate Modern in London to New York's MOMA, but until this week his textured silhouettes have not made much of an appearance in Russia.

Issue 3988 | 15 Sep 2008

Exploring Earth's Unknown Worlds
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times The photo exhibition ""Unknown World: Earth"" at the FotoLoft Gallery at Winzavod is showing some of the best work from GEO magazine's archives, documenting expeditions of Russian explorers into some of the most remote and unexplored regions of the world.

Issue 3986 | 11 Sep 2008

Young Art Collectors Step Into Spotlight
By John Wendle / Staff Writer The Russian art world has also been booming the last few years on the back of huge investment. But one group conspicuous by its absence has been young collectors.

Issue 3985 | 10 Sep 2008

Dressing Up for Britain at the Kremlin Museums
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer It took three years to plan the new exhibition at the Kremlin Museums, ""Two Centuries of British Fashion. From the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.""

Issue 3984 | 9 Sep 2008

Coming To a Big Screen Near You
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer In a huge empty lot near a former grain elevator, cars draw up in front of a screen to watch Matt Damon in ""Dogma.""

Issue 3983 | 8 Sep 2008

Catching On With the Swinging Upper Class
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer When asked by Leonid Brezhnev how to attract investment into the Soviet Union, billionaire entrepreneur Armand Hammer told him to provide limousines and golf courses for U.S. businessmen.

Issue 3981 | 4 Sep 2008

Folk, Fire And Food To Feature At Festival
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer The annual open-air folk music festival Harvest will take place on Saturday for the fifth time as a part of Moscow's City Day celebrations.

Issue 3980 | 3 Sep 2008

Spend City Day Clowning Around
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Circus artists from all over the world have gathered in Moscow to perform at the Moscow International Youth Festival of Circus Arts, which coincides with City Day.

Issue 3979 | 2 Sep 2008

City Hall Invites Kids to The Party
By Marina Kamenev / Staff Writer With 2008 designated as ""Year of the Family,"" the City Day celebrations this weekend offer a number of events and activities for children and their parents.

Issue 3978 | 1 Sep 2008

Big Ring On Red Square for City Day
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer This year's City Day celebrations will offer something new at the very heart of the capital: boxing on Red Square.

Issue 3976 | 28 Aug 2008

Tourney For the Sword of Russia
By Peter Slezkine / Special to The Moscow Times In Russia, even medieval fairs are treated like an Olympic sport. Just a week after one group of fencers left Beijing with their rapiers, epees and sabers, another will arrive in Moscow with broadswords, shields and breastplates. Their destination -- the Sword of Russia historic fencing tournament, which is being held this Saturday at the cultural complex Setunsky Stan.

Issue 3975 | 27 Aug 2008

Getting an Authentic Taste of Havana
By Jeremy Ventuso / Special to The Moscow Times Though recent rumors regarding the possibility of Russian strategic bombers refueling on Cuba and allusions to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis might amount to nothing more than a lot of hot air, a Cuban base of sorts has opened its doors for business right in the heart of Moscow.

Issue 3974 | 26 Aug 2008

New Ways To See Moscow By Water
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer One of the most relaxing ways to see any city is from the river.

Issue 3973 | 25 Aug 2008

Carmakers Putting Their Best Wheels Forward
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer With Russia quickly overtaking European countries to become the biggest car market, perhaps it is no surprise that a record number of carmakers have picked Moscow to unveil new models.

Issue 3971 | 21 Aug 2008

Shooting Young Moscow's Raw and Trendy Denizens
By Anna Yukhananov / Special to The Moscow Times There are two young men on the expanse of white canvas. One wears sunglasses and a Ramones T-shirt, the other a sleeveless shirt, boxing hand wraps, and a Vans baseball cap. With their confident slouch, they are the epitome of cool, sporting the gestures, brands and attitudes of international youth culture.

Issue 3970 | 20 Aug 2008

All That Famous Jazz at the Hermitage Garden
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times Every jazz fan knows that the last weekend in August is the best time to hear favorite music performed live by top musicians. As the summer draws to a close, the 11th annual, three-day international jazz festival gets under way in the Hermitage Garden on Friday.

Issue 3969 | 19 Aug 2008

5,000 Dancers Will Try to Bring Music to Life
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times What do you get when you combine a DJ, a Russian orchestra and pairs of dancing Argentines?

Issue 3968 | 18 Aug 2008

A Portal Into a Time That Russia Never Knew
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Glamorous blondes in sequined dresses, director Federico Fellini in his signature hat and beaming Elizabeth Taylor with big hair -- the black-and-white images, set against Stoleshnikov Pereulok's boutiques, are like a portal into a time that Russia never knew.

Issue 3966 | 14 Aug 2008

Some Familiar and Improvised Tunes in the Park
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times There's classical music, pop music and folk music. And then there's Svetolitiye, a group that says its music defies being pigeonholed into a genre.

Issue 3965 | 13 Aug 2008

Camp in a Hut, Admire the Macaroni Memorial
By Alexi Shaw / Special to The Moscow Times On a huge field in the Kaluga region stands a museum of the Russian stove, a massive jungle gym and 91 international huts.

Issue 3964 | 12 Aug 2008

'Historical Insinuations' With a Detached Gaze
By Anna Yukhananov / Special to The Moscow Times A bald Soviet army soldier with bushy eyebrows holds a rosebud to his lip, half-smiling. He looks to the side, and you can imagine that in the next moment he will start dancing the tango.

Issue 3961 | 7 Aug 2008

Ride With The Best Mountain Bikers
By Peter Slezkine / Special to The Moscow Times Moscow's mountain biking fans will get the chance to see some of Russia's best racers compete in the third and final stage of the Univega Country Cup at the Kant Sports Complex this Sunday.

Issue 3960 | 6 Aug 2008

20,000 Fountains Dance to Mozart
By Marianna Tishchenko / Special to The Moscow Times Ever seen a fountain dance to ""Swan Lake""? How about 20,000 fountains?

Issue 3959 | 5 Aug 2008

Fancy Hats and Kadyrov's Horses at Hippodrome
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer One of the major horse racing events of the year will bring together Russia's beau monde and equestrian fans at the Central Moscow Hippodrome.

Issue 3958 | 4 Aug 2008

No Kissing Policemen At New Video Exhibit
By Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times The collection by mostly Russian artists seeks to reflect the entire spectrum of contemporary visual art.

Issue 3933 | 30 Jun 2008

Salmon Kebab
Chef's Secrets

Wall St. Watering Hole
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer Wall St. Bar, as the name might suggest, is positioning itself as a place for stock traders and the like to unwind after a hard day working the markets.

Looking Behind The Mirror
By Svetalana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Women are starting to pay attention to the composition of their cosmetics.

Ride the Library Train
By Lara McCoy Roslof / Special to The Moscow Times What to Do

Issue 3931 | 26 Jun 2008

Summertime Swan Lake
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer Last year, Kak na Kanarakh was ""the"" summer spot. Created by the people behind Solyanka night club and cafe, the pontoon restaurant was a virtual floating resort on the river beside Gorky Park, complete with a swimming pool and deck chairs.

Crimea Revisited
By John Wendle / Staff Writer The beaches and mountains of Crimea have much to offer a new generation of vacationers.

Ask the Chef
Alexander Saburov is head chef at the St. Tropez restaurant.

Issue 3929 | 24 Jun 2008

Something A Little Fishy
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Local divers and spearfishers find much of interest in the rivers and lakes of the Moscow region.

Mango Mousse
Chef's Secrets

At Home in Dom i Ko
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer Natura Viva with its unusual colonial theme, has passed into the history books, and in its place has arrived Dom i Ko. Unusual is not the word needed to describe this new restaurant, however.

Issue 3928 | 23 Jun 2008

Restaurant News
By Nathan Toohey / Special to The Moscow Times

Embracing the Unexpected
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Once a typical American girl from Colorado, Laura Williams left the city for a tiny village in rural Russia.

Go for a Walk in a Garden
By Lara McCoy Roslof / Special to The Moscow Times What to Do

Diky Ris Hits the Center
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer The opening of the original Diky Ris late last year was promising, as the democratic Japanese eatery offered more than just the typical selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls, including some other Asian cuisine.

Issue 3926 | 19 Jun 2008

Meaty Treats at Torro
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer The first Torro Grill opened at a shopping center in southern Moscow in February, 2007. A little over a year later, Torro Grill No. 2 has opened, this time much closer to the center. Not only is the new grill house better located, it also has more serious lodgings, with its own separate entrance from the street.

Ascetic Settlements
By William C. Brumfield / Special to The Moscow Times The Vologda region features several interesting monastic complexes that reflect Russia's unique religious history.

Ask the Chef
Jonas Grip of Sweden is the head chef at Scandinavia restaurant.

Issue 3924 | 17 Jun 2008

Restaurant Called Cafe
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer Given the crowds of the well-to-do spilling out of the upmarket restaurant Aist, it would seem that rumors of its fading mojo are exaggerated.

A Challenging Drive
By John Wendle / Staff Writer Participants in the Peking Challenge face a long drive from Amsterdam to Beijing via Russia to raise money for charity.

Chef's Secrets: Summer Yogurt Soup
A recipe from Yankel Schein, concept chef at Filimonova & Yankel fish house.

Issue 3923 | 16 Jun 2008

From the Ground Up
By John Wendle / Staff Writer Trained in finance, Dmitry Lutsenko found his calling in real estate development after building his own home.

Restaurant News
By Nathan Toohey / Special to The Moscow Times

A Democratic Debut
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer According to the staff of the recently opened Dem restaurant, ""Dem"" is short for ""democratic,"" which seems fairly appropriate. The cafe, as it calls itself, is indeed democratic in the egalitarian sense of the word, or at least the atmosphere is.

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