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Articles by Nick Dowson

Russian Acts Set to Perform at Edinburgh Fringe

Scotland and Russia may not seem to have much in common, aside from a shared image as countries of terrible winters and heavy drinking, but this...

Buena Vista Singer Portuondo, 81, Going Strong

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, the 13-member band that carries on the work of the Cuban cultural phenomenon, will play in Moscow later this month...

Matching Names to the Soviet Norwegian Dead

There are six Ivanovs listed on the web site: Grigory, Semyon, Pavel, Vasily, Pyotr and Alexei. Ivanov is one of Russia's most common surnames, so it...

Canadian-Costa Rican Pianist Opts for Moscow

Though he says he came late to piano, 17-year-old Jonathan Duarte is by no means an underachiever. After sweeping several international competitions...

Stop, Start Lessons in Easy Cartoon Filming

A deer runs, children start to fly and shapes appear in a salt-filled pan if you spend time with Nikolai Shakin at his DIY animation workshop. Shakin...

Lego City Offers Fun, Education

Kids and adults can play with a million Lego bricks at the Journey to the Future exhibit as the famous building blocks are put at Muscovites' disposal...

Gagarin-Inspired Art for 50th Anniversary

The Moscow art world has a mass of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's first flight into space — from exhibits to film...

British Gold Medalists Go Back to Luzhniki

Two British sporting legends, Daley Thompson and Allan Wells, returned to the site of their greatest success to mark the start of the 500-day countdown...

Fight Continues for Downtown Garden

A public garden in downtown Moscow that was closed off and guarded for the last six years has partially reopened after a campaign by local residents...

United States Returns Precious Archive Documents

The U.S. ambassador's residence was the setting for a historic ceremony to mark the return of 21 valuable historical documents to Russia. The documents...

Farce and Reality Meet in 'Four Lions'

In the wake of the Domodedovo bombing, Chris Morris' film "Four Lions," a comedy about Yorkshire suicide bombings, might seem to be the last film...

Gagarin Blasts Off Comic Book-Style

Russia will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space in April this year. To mark the anniversary, a British...

Ex-Fugee Embarks on Two-Month Russian Tour

Grammy-nominated musician John Forte, whose life has taken him from poverty to private school to stardom and jail, will soon begin a two-month tour of...

Journalism Students Poke Fun at Politics

Socrates and Dracula are not often seen quoted together, but students from Moscow State University have done that by putting words into the mouths of both...

Church Objects on Show at St. Basil’s

A new exhibition, “The Golden Vestry,” is now on in part of St. Basil’s Cathedral as the church marks its 450th anniversary this year.

U.K. Students Play Bulgakov in English at MKhAT

British students from London’s Central School of Speech and Drama will perform “Black Snow,” a play based on the writings of Mikhail Bulgakov, at...

Coloring 1950s-'60s New York

Saul Leiter’s color photos are at first sight understated, like the man himself. His fame as a photographer lingered in obscurity for decades before...

Preservationists Protest Revising Heritage Law

Russia's leading preservationist campaign group Arkhnadzor has called on the public to gather Saturday in protest of what they say is an attack on the...