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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>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:41 -0700</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:41 -0700</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[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 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Banksy Visit Ukraine?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ukrainian city of Simferopol, on the Black sea, recently spotted over 20 Banksy-style graffiti murals. According to the UK art dealer who vacationed in Simferopol and  who sold some of the Banksy’s original art works, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00314/">the Ukrainian graffiti looks “very, very Banksy.” </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00314/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00314/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00314/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t Come To Moscow This Week ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The heat wave in Moscow breaks all temperature records possible. All air conditioners are sold out, the government is taking emergency measures to help farmers amid the worst draught in 130 years, people are drowning while trying to cool off, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00313/">and the Kremlin guard regiment has been cancelled due to danger of heat exhaustion.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00313/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00313/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00313/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle Over Sergei Magnitsky’s Death Escalates ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The battle over the death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky reached new heights this week, after former Magnitsky’s employer <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00312/">Jamison Firestone released another video on YouTube, exposing one of the prosecutors involved in the case.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00312/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00312/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00312/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden Art  (Virtual Exhibition)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The complete list of Forbidden Art exhibition works is published by Russia! for your viewing pleasure. This Monday, Russian court found the curators responsible for the <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00310/">Forbidden Art exhibition that took place in 2007 guilty in inciting religious and ethnic hatred.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00310/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00310/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/art/00310/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious Facts of Road Construction  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ironically, it is cheaper to build the road from Adler to Sochi, the capital of 2014 Winter Olympics, from actual <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/Sochi2014/00311/">$100 bills and oysters than from asphalt. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/Sochi2014/00311/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/Sochi2014/00311/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/Sochi2014/00311/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Sochi 2014]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Diaries: Around Moscow (Slideshow) ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia! introduces a series of reports from towns small and large around Moscow. This week, it’s Dubna and Kymri, situated on the banks of Volga river, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00309/">120 kilometers south of the Russian capital.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00309/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00309/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00309/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: "Chess - A Bridge Between the East and the West"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia! Magazine interviewed Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/interview/00308/">incumbent President of FIDE (World Chess Federation) and President of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/interview/00308/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/interview/00308/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/interview/00308/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Helsinki Commission may investigate possible link between Phillip Morris and corrupt Russian officials]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) may soon be reviewing a possible connection between U.S. cigarette manufacturer <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00307/">Philip Morris and a circle of corrupt Russian government officials. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00307/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00307/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00307/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deripaska Wants to Lead the Nornickel Board, Reuters Reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska claims he wants to head the newly elected board of directors of Norilsk Nickel, causing tensions between Norilsk Nickel and the aluminum giant Rusal, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00306/">Russian Reuters reported yesterday.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00306/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00306/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00306/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Masha Rumer]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Medvedev Follows You on Twitter ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, during his trip to California, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev visited Twitter headquarters and <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00305/">opened his Twitter account.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00305/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00305/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00305/]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geo-tagged Map Of Moscow ]]></title><description><![CDATA[INFORMATION DESIGNER ERIC FISCHER created a geo-tagged world atlas, where color density on the maps of world's largest cities <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00304/">represents the number of photos uploaded by Flickr users.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00304/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00304/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00304/]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Gave Mr. Medvedev His iPad?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev — the first Russian president who actually uses the internet, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00303/">owns an iPad.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00303/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00303/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00303/]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans Can't Return and Exchange Unwanted Russian Children  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a blow to the US Consumer Protection Act, which allows buyers to exchange and return unwanted merchandise, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00302/">Russia suspended adoptions of Russian children by Americans.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00302/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00302/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00302/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pronouncing Russian Names Correctly Is Too Much For American Television]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, Good Morning America aired a segment where three Russia's <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00301/">most powerful women (?) talked about their country. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00301/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00301/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00301/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Blah-blah]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Images: At Least 20 Died in the Moscow Subway Explosion [Updated]]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least 26 people died and dozens more were injured in the Moscow <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00300/">subway explosion Monday morning.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00300/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00300/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00300/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Does Not Want Russians To Enjoy Cheap Furniture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slon.ru, Russian online newspaper, compiled the "Ikea index", the relative cost of the 32 Ikea products basket across 28 countries. According to the newspaper, the index shows the cost of doing business in the given country. And guess what: <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00299/">Russia's Ikea products are some of the most expensive in the world.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00299/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00299/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00299/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Note]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former Russian intelligence operative <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00292/">builds $150,000 stereo systems out of his basement.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00292/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00292/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00292/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Julia Ioffe]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[DHL Suspends Shipping To Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[DHL, one of the top companies shipping to Russia from the US and Europe, banned non-letter shipment to this country, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00298/">sighting recent changes in customs regulations and clearance delays. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00298/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00298/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00298/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:00 -0700</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorbachev Is Worried About Democracy in Russia. Somebody should! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev voiced his concern about the state of democracy in Russia in his New York Times op-ed, dedicated to the 25-year <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00297/">anniversary of Perestroika:</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00297/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00297/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/politics/00297/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill Hill: The Trolololo Adventures in the Afterlife ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We will not even attempt to further comment on the meme and will simply bring you an updated list of the Trolololo remixes. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00296/">Enjoy!</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00296/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00296/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00296/]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Ship Stuff To Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in the 19th century, it took approximately 5 weeks for a letter to arrive to St. Petersburg, Russia from California. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00295/">150 years later, it takes two months (if it ever arrives at all.) </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00295/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00295/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/business/00295/]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brighton Beach, 130-Old Woman, Vladimir Sorokin and Mikhail Prokhorov ]]></title><description><![CDATA[What are we reading: RUSSIA! scans and brings you some <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00294/">Russia-focused chatter from around the web.</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00294/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00294/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00294/]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live-blogging the Oscars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since live-blogging the Oscars is almost a must this year, RUSSIA! has decided to live-blog Russia-related references at the ceremony. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/film/00293/">There must be at least one!?</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/film/00293/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/film/00293/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/film/00293/]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Film]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Athletes Miss Their $1 Million Bonus]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Russia is trying to come to grips with its disastrous performance in Vancouver, <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00291/">Russian athletes have to deal with their personal financial disappointments.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00291/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00291/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/sport/00291/]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Look: Russia's Electric Car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia's richest man and soon-to-be owner of the New Jersey Nets, is financing the electric budget car project. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00290/">Details and first images of the vehicle after the jump. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00290/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00290/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/made-in-russia/00290/]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Made in Russia]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Illegal To Demand $500 Million in Bribes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The figures are out on the volume of bribery in Russia and they are staggering. Experts estimate that bribery accounts for 20% to 30% of Russia's GDP. To prove the experts right, a police detective <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00289/">demanded a multimillion-dollar bribe and got arrested in Moscow.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00289/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00289/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/News/00289/]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carrying $1 Million In Cash Around Moscow Is Still Dangerous]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you decide to go around Moscow with $1 Million in your bag, here is an advice: Don't. It sounds like a silly advice, doesn't it? <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00288/">But it is not.</a> ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00288/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00288/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/travel/00288/]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Tatyana Bokova-Foley]]></author><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Medvedev Addresses the Nation, Facebook Users ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that Russians disproportionately adore the New Year. At least we used to, back in Brezhnev’s early ’80s, when it was the only truly private holiday aside from one’s birthday: <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00286/">intimate, all-inclusive, apolitical, non-denominational. </a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00286/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00286/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/blah-blah/00286/]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0800</pubDate><author><![CDATA[Russia! Staff]]></author><category><![CDATA[Blah-blah]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia! Editions: St. Petersburg Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[This limited-edition print is a unique, geographically accurate map of Russia's literary capital, created entirely from quotes by Russian authors writing about St. Petersburg. <a href="http://readrussia.com/blog/books/00093/">(E.g., a Pushkin line about the Neva river becomes the river itself).</a>]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/books/00093/]]></link><guid><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/books/00093/]]></guid><comments><![CDATA[http://readrussia.com/blog/books/00093/]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category></item></channel></rss>
