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Articles by Layli Foroudi

Unraveling Moscow's Most Mysterious Art Collection

Two policemen sat in a car 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the entrance to an ordinary residential block in the center of Moscow. Behind the door...

Eurovision Parody Backs Gagarina

Russian and British Eurovision fans in London have donned wigs for a parody Eurovision video to showcase their favorites for this year's song contest.

Gagarina Gains Support on Eve of Eurovision Final

Russian contestant Polina Gagarina has made it through to the Eurovision song contest final where she will face off against 27 other countries.

Polina Gagarina Makes the Eurovision Final

Russia Eurovision hopeful Polina Gagarina sailed into the final with a confident performance in the semifinal Tuesday, where she was met with neither...

Anti-Booing Technology Set Up for Russia at Eurovision

With the Eurovision song contest set to start late Tuesday, organizers say they will take extraordinary measures to mask any booing from the audience...

Learning Russian Through Chekhov and Acting at Peoples' Friendship University


"Lights! And come onto stage" shouts the voice from the back of the room to a group of students on a blue-lit stage. "OK, stop and go again."...

American Photo Great Bullock on Show at Lumiere


It is not enough to look at Wynn Bullock's photographs on display at the Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography.

The Nine Best Moscow Restaurants With a View

Always stuck in traffic? If you can't afford a flight to escape this city, then at least head to one of Moscow's high-rise restaurants, where the city...

Enter World of Avant-Garde With Pushkin Tour

Art lovers have the chance to enjoy a free English-language tour at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts as British art historian Ruth Addison takes people...

Ethnic Food, Dancing, and Football for Thousands Set to Celebrate Navruz in Moscow

Thousands of people will don their best clothes and welcome spring with dancing, music, great food and football at Navruz celebrations in Moscow this...

Pushkin Museum Launches #savetheshedu Drive

In response to the devastation of Assyrian monuments in Nimrud and Mosul, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has launched the campaign #savetheshedu...

Funky 'Gagarin' Tribute Song Whips Up a Storm

Two men walk into a room, put on space costumes and then dance like crazy, mixing hip-hop moves and air guitaring as the story of Yury Gagarin, the first...

Pop Star Chosen for Eurovision as Russian Politician Calls It 'Degraded'

Pop star Polina Gagarina will represent Russia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. Gagarina, who is best known for appearing on...

Moscow Refugee Center Helps Children Learn

Amal Allamama, a refugee from Syria, and her daughter Selma Kutaefan are studying Russian in a small flat that work as both a school and community...

Telling a Good English Teacher From a Bad One

After falling in love with the French language as a university student, Catherine Walter left the United States for France, where she studied second...

Russian Plus-Size Women Take Over the Catwalk

Full-figured women will strut the catwalk and show that big is beautiful this Saturday at the Plus Size Fashion Weekend in Kuzminki park.

Learning the Lessons of Art Freedom at Garage

Freedom is on the curriculum at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art with "Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons," an exhibition based around five ways...

Kusturica, Bregovic Combine for Show

Best known for their collaborations on screen, director Emir Kusturica and musician Goran Bregovic will join together for music reasons only in Moscow...

The Globe, National Theatre and Met in Moscow

Does a trip to London or New York seem like a ruble too far these days? Nevermind, you can still go there for a few hundred of the fast-devaluing...

Russian Romance Crooners Poised for Kremlin Gig

Lovers of Russia know the country's composers, writers and painters — but not the stars and the genre of Russian romance, "one of the most loved...

Holocaust Exhibit Gives Faces to the Victims

Visitors to the new exhibit at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre enter through a dark corridor. Hundreds of names are written in different shades...

Art Nouveau Treasure Knocked Down in Moscow

City architectural preservationists are up in arms after the almost complete demolition of a famous Moscow Art Nouveau complex just a few hundred meters...

Federal Museums Now Free for Children Under 18

Parents were given their own New Year's present over the holidays when the country's federal museums scrapped all entry fees for children under the age...

The Saw Doctors and Waterboys Team Up

Anthony Thistlethwaite's last visit to Russia was a holiday in 1995 that saw him accidentally meet and jam with Boris Grebenshchikov, the legendary...

Bolshoi Packed for Tribute to Legendary Singer Yelena Obraztsova

Hundreds of Russians paid their last respects to renowned and much-loved opera singer Yelena Obraztsova in the Bolshoi Theater on Wednesday.

Breslin Shows Off Vibrant Colors in 'Pass the Salt'

British artist Sinead Breslin's first solo show "Pass the Salt," marked by vibrant colors, absurd proportions and playful narratives, is now on in...

Mass Nude Artist Looks How to Shoot in Moscow

Everywhere you look at the new exhibit "Safety in Numbers," at RuArtsGallery, you can see nude bodies. American photographer Spencer Tunick has specialized...

CrocodilePOWER Takes Apart 'Russian Space'

Visitors enter the exhibit of art duo CrocodilePOWER under the words "Russian Space." The words, written in white on black with a "Star Wars" style...