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Fall/Winter 2009

Georgia’s Messy Breakup

Let's be clear up front: this is a love story. It’s about a special kind of love that can sometimes, but usually does not, form between a large country and a smaller one. Georgia loved too much and too hard; it looked to America and saw its future.

Deep-Sixing Boredom

Curbed Goes To Moscow

Hammered and Sickled: The Great Soviet Bar Crawl

Fashion
 The New Coldness Moscow’s top young designers find warmth in unexpected places.
Made in Russia
 Optimus Pride Art Lebedev’s luminous, $1,500 keyboard emerges from the vapor
Books
 Nightmare Escapism Stalin’s Russia becomes thriller fodder: Boris Kachka on City of Thieves and Child 44
Travel
 Potentially Endless Summer Rob Kutner recalls the quirks of communal living and the dangers of forging a Russian visa.
Music
 яTunes. The RUSSIA! Playlist Critics pick the pop songs that define the times
Food
 Shrooming The illustrious mushroom-picking tradition examined. PLUS: Mama Olga’s sautéed chanterelles
Travel
 My Year in eXile Alexander Zaitchik pulls back the curtain on the notorious tabloid’s inner workings
Column
 Multitasking in Moscow Michael Idov explains why “full disclosure” isn’t an option for Russians
Music
 A Debauched Night Out With Eugene Hutz We capture the Gypsy-punk party machine in the act
Travel
 Kaliningrad, Where Prussia Loses the “P” How Kant’s hometown became a Russian city – and what to eat there

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Spring 2007
Explores the fate of free speech, Ivan the Terrible's buried treasure, time travel and homosexuality. Also: young women chopping wood, and a photographic journey to Russia's Far East.
Fall 2007
Fall 2007 Issue with a Bear on the Cover (and Eight More Bears Inside). Children Draw Putin, the New Workaholics, Guide to Sochi, the Russophobe and the Rise and Fall of the Russian Tea Room.
Business Issue
Wild East: American Investment Firm TPG Capital and Russian State Bank VTB Storm St. Petersburg Retailer's Office with Tear Gas and Bombs. Offensive Art. NYSE in Russia.
Winter 2008
The Cosmos Issue: Space Tourism, Exclusive Star City Photos, Mistranslated Lit Classics, Oil Lust, the Most Controversial Art of the Year and the Life of Laika (in Pictures).
Summer 2008
Coronating Medvedev, Beet Generation and Russian Porn Academy, "Poor Art," color photos from 1909, and Nina Khrushcheva on Nabokov and Buckley