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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Russia! magazine]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com]]></link><description><![CDATA[RUSSIA! is the only publication of its kind: an independent magazine devoted entirely to Russia-related topics. With strong reporting, cutting-edge Russian graphic design and a healthy dose of sarcasm, RUSSIA! offers the most original coverage of the people, trends, ideas and events that shape this fascinating and perplexing country.]]></description><language>en-us</language><managingEditor><![CDATA[andrew.biliter@readrussia.com (Andrew Biliter)]]></managingEditor><webMaster><![CDATA[team@silverplate.ru (Silver Plate)]]></webMaster><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:49:30 +0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:49:30 +0400</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><image><url><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/f/images/rss-logo.gif]]></url><title><![CDATA[Russia! magazine]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com]]></link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Will Joseph Kobzon, Famed Soviet Crooner, Be Denied a U.S. Visa, Again? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iosif Kobzon, Russia’s Frank Sinatra, is sitting in his office in one of the famed Stalin’s skyscrapers downtown Moscow. While in his seventies, impeccably dressed Kobzon is still a politician, a performer, and a philanthropist. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00346/">And he is still banned from entering the United States.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00346/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00346/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00346/]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Some KGB Oldtimers Tried to Bump Off a Visa Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retired secret service agents attempt raid on VFS Global. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00345/">Raid attempt is foiled. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00345/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00345/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00345/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury Prison Cells Are Illegal, Apparently]]></title><description><![CDATA[This country has a knack for luxury. Several corrections officers were discharged in the Russian city if Volgograd for allegedly setting up 'VIP prison cells' — a five-star accommodation for <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00344/">wealthy mugs and senior mafia bosses.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00344/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00344/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00344/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:40:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Un-Oligarchical Alexander Lebedev]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexander Lebedev – the billionaire owner of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and Britain’s The Independent – <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00340/">is leaving business for politics because he has grown tired of battling corrupt officials.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00340/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00340/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00340/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunate Road Situation, Slavic Style]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of those who drove in Russia know that the quality of roads in this country is so terrible that it’s not even funny. But you, the reader, should review the following images — and next time you hear your cab driver speaking Russian — just sit back and relax: <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00342/">the driver knows what he is doing.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00342/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00342/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00342/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecological Activist Yevgenia Chirikova Seeks Support in the US, Unable to Find It in Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unable to find support at home, well-known Russian human rights and ecological activist Yevgenia Chirikova, who led the revolt in Moscow against the clear-cutting of the Khimki forest, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00343/">is trying to get help in the U.S. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00343/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00343/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00343/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia’s Supply of iPad 2 Sells Out in Two Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two days — that’s how long it took to sell out the 10,000-unit supply of the newest Apple tablets in Russia after the <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00341/">iPad 2 went on sale here, several months after it became available in the US.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00341/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00341/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00341/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian President Medvedev Dances Like A School Girl (Video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have discovered a video on Youtube today which features Russian President Dmitry A. Medvedev showing of his dance moves. Mr. Medvedev obviously has not danced much since the 1980s. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00339/">We won’t even try to make satirical comments -- just add that the song in the video is called “American boy”. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00339/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00339/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00339/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:10:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expert: Situation at Norilsk Nickel Resembles Soviet Plant ]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Russia struggles to improve its investment climate and attract more foreign direct investment, the country’s largest corporations are starting to resemble the nearly-forgotten Soviet economic plants, with incompetent management, lack of supervision, and very creative accounting, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00338/">according to the report published in Moscow this week.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00338/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00338/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00338/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia! Magazine Presents the 10 Biggest Scandals on the Russian Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the last 10 years, the market for Russian art has grown by a factor of 30 and now accounts for $400 million in sales a year, and the role of Russians on the international art market is ever more noticeable. In turn, art scandals involving Russians are also increasing in number. Russia! magazine has published a <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00337/">Top 10 rating of the biggest scandals on the Russian art market at the beginning of 21st century.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00337/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00337/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00337/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Philanthropist of Dagestan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Suleiman Kerimov Foundation has disbursed around $60 million to social projects <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00333/">in Dagestan and Russia.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00333/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00333/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00333/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bomb Explodes in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport [VIDEO]]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least 10 people were killed and 70 injured in a blast in Moscow’s international airport, Domodedovo. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00332/">According to the airport officials, the blast was a suicide bombing that took place in the arrivals section, near the baggage claim section.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00332/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00332/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00332/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interros to Not Take Part In Norilsk Nickel’s Shares Buyback Effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, which owns a 25-percent stake in Russian miner Norilsk Nickel, will not take part in the major Norilsk’s shares buyback effort, announced by the company earlier this week, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00331/">according to a source in Interros.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00331/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00331/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00331/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Khodorkovsky Found Guilty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today in Moscow, the judge apparently found the former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty in his second trial, according to the reports by Russian news agencies. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00330/">However, the judge, Victor Danilkin, requested all media to leave the court room before the verdict has been formally announced.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00330/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00330/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00330/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia! Presents a Special Business Issue  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A special edition of Russia! will hit bookstores on Dec. 1. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/media/00328/">Its cover story is the seizure of the Lenta retail chain by the U.S. fund TPG Capital and VTB, a major Russian bank. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/media/00328/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/media/00328/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/media/00328/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Media]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Guide to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Crossing the Street]]></title><description><![CDATA[LIVING IN MOSCOW IN THE ’00s TURNED ME INTO CITY-GUIDE GIRL, for better or for worse. It was due to pity, basically. If there’s any destination more forbidding or user-unfriendly than Russia, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00327/">I have yet to find it.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00327/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00327/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00327/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Valerie Stivers-Isakova]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pete Doherty Jams with Street Musician in Moscow (Video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing unique happened to Pete Doherty on his recent trip to Moscow: he got waisted on the Moscow-bound train, lost a hat, bought a hat, and played a handsomely-paid gig. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/music/00326/">But he did one really cool thing: he jammed with a street accordionist. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/music/00326/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/music/00326/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/music/00326/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:00:00 +0300</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Music]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deripaska Expected To Sell His Norilsk Nickel Stake to Interros After Losing Board Vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[United Company Rusal and the management of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel, continued their bitter fight for control of the mining firm last week, as Norilsk shareholders rebuffed a request from Rusal to change the board of directors. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00325/">It is a struggle that media observers have described as the Russian corporate scandal of the year. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00325/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00325/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00325/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Not to Visit Moscow (Photos)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arnold  Schwarzenegger visited Moscow this weekend, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00323/">and his travel agenda was less than inspiring.</a>  ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00323/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00323/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00323/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger in Moscow, Part 2 (More Photos) ]]></title><description><![CDATA[California Governor rode the Moscow metro today. We have to say, Mr. Schwarzenegger is becoming one of the most popular politicians in Russia -- the blogosphere here is filled <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00322/">with “Arnie for Moscow Mayor” slogans and suggestions of metro stops worth visiting.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00322/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00322/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00322/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger and Medvedev Twit and Meet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Didn’t want to let this one go without a raised eyebrow. Arnold Schwarzenegger landed in Moscow to visit his friend, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00321/">President Dmitry Medvedev, and discuss Skolkovo, the newest Russian national effort (that is, creating the Silicon Valley 30 miles from Moscow).</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00321/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00321/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00321/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Medvedev Fires Moscow Mayor Luzhkov  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the long-serving Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov today amid a bitter and conflicted dispute. Luzhkov was a dominant figure in Russian politics and business, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00320/">and one of the main questions after his departure is who is going to take over Moscow, one of the most lucrative real estate and financial centers in the world.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00320/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00320/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00320/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Dmitry Medvedev Gay?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since taking the top job in 2008, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been accused in everything from being Vladimir Putin’s puppet to complete lack of taste when it comes to picking a tie. Yet he has never been “accused” of being gay. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00324/">Let’s dive under the jump to see why we think he might be gay and how this can be the greatest PR for Russia since WWII.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00324/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00324/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00324/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Blah-blah]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 Years Later, Moscow-Nice Train Service Returns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nice, a southern French resort town, once popular among Russian intelligentsia and aristocracy, is getting a regular train service to Moscow again, almost a 100 years since it’s been shut down by the Soviet government <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00319/">(apparently, there was not much travel between Moscow and Nice in those days).</a>  ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00319/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00319/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00319/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunate Profile Pictures, Slavic Style]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though making an ass out of yourself on the internet is not culturally exclusive, let's gander at the Slavic strain of the phenomena, distinguished by <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00258/">a joyous lack of judgement, heavy abuse of photoshop, and an abundance of wall carpets.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00258/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00258/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00258/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Marina Galperina]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Art For Putin]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, Shepard "Hope Poster" Fairey is still trying to ride that co-opted optimism wave — he's just <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/10/obama_art.html#">co-edited</a> the new Art for Obama book. Well, Russia's got a dusty stockpile of old presidential art too. Well, it's not "presidential" anymore/yet (Medvedev's still keeping Putin's seat warm for him until the next election). And it's less art-book and more tacky-thrift-store material, mostly. But let's dig through the pile anyway, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00260/">because Yes, We Can Too... kind of.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00260/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00260/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00260/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Marina Galperina]]></author><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moscow’s White-collar Fight Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[While you won’t see Brad Pitt getting a bloody nose from some anonymous office face with chronic insomnia, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00317/">Moscow’s new October Boxing Club hints at a similar concept.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00317/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00317/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00317/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:40:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Frederick Bernas]]></author><category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country Battles Heat Wave, Loses (Photos)]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Moscow battles the unprecedented heat wave (this weekend is expected to the hottest ever here with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius / 104 F), it finds itself <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00316/">completely unprepared for such extreme weather, making it yet harder for Muscovites.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00316/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00316/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00316/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Diaries: Kasimov]]></title><description><![CDATA[A turbulent economy and soaring real estate prices that transformed Moscow into one of the most exciting cities in the world, failed to reach for <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00315/">Kasimov, a small town a mere 150 miles East of Russian capital. Russia! continues its apparently doomed search for a decent breakfast in the provincia. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00315/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00315/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00315/]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in All, It's Just Another Kiss on the Wall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brezhnev and Honecker's ferocious make-out painted on the Berlin Wall has just been white-washed. But do not fear - the deadly lovers will be back in all their symbolic glory as Russian artist Dmitri Vrubel recreates the mural in time for <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00202/">the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00202/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00202/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00202/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0400</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Marina Galperina]]></author><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category></item></channel></rss>

