Yes, it's true: New Yorkers are facing stiff competition in the real estate market from highfalutin foreign buyers. And where precisely are these buyers coming from? China, Russia and Brazil, according to a break-down from The Real Deal. Read More
At a time when the new Russia is more about gangsters than politicians, along comes a benign thriller that is about as thrilling as last week’s borscht. Read More
Not since the Cold War, it seems, have strained diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Russia spilled over into the public arena with such ferocity—only this time the war is over art and two collections of religious books. The art wars were triggered by the private agenda of Chabad, a Jewish sect seeking religious books Read More
Russian Dolls is a new reality series on Lifetime about the habits and lifestyles of women of Russian extraction in Brighton Beach. Alessandra Stanley is an acid-tongued New York Times critic who wants to show you that she was paying attention in sophomore-year European history (or, Read More
The U.S.-Russia art wars are again center stage in Chabad v. Russian Federation, the case that triggered Russia’s current embargo on lending art to U.S. museums. In a decision issued Tuesday, the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. acknowledged that Russia’s fear that its art might be seized by Chabad, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Orthodox sect, Read More
This evening, 50 years after Yuri Gagarin completed the first manned flight into space, Sotheby's New York will be auctioning a prototype of his spaceship, the Vostok 3KA-2. Test-driven with a "cosmonaut-mannequin" named Ivan Ivanovich only 18 days before Mr. Gagarin's historic flight, it's the only privately owned Vostok spaceship outside of Russia. The Read More
"I'm afraid to go back to Russia," said Pavel Khodorkovsky. The 25-year-old is the oldest son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oligarch whom the Kremlin had sent back to prison several days before on new charges of embezzlement.
"If anything happened to me," he said, pausing, as if to contemplate the inscrutable darkness of the Read More
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta will team up with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russian government, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
"Assange said that Russians will soon find out a lot about their country and he wasn't bluffing," Novaya Gazeta said. "Our collaboration will expose corruption at the top tiers of political power. No one is protected from Read More
The word around the Red Square is that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has left his wife for Alina Kabayeva, a 27-year-old member of the Olympic gymnastics team.
Hot stuff! Putin's probably sicced his old KGB buddies on the those with loose lips, seeking to quash the rumors. But the release of a certain magazine may Read More
When Russian Prime Minister took the stage at a childrens' cancer fundraiser in St. Petersburg Friday, he had an announcement to make. "Like the majority of people I cannot sing nor dance," the usually tough-as-nails ex-KGB ruler told the star-studded crowd. "But still love doing it."
And with that a backup band tore into a Read More
Noticed a melancholy longing in recent weeks for more random emails asking you to buy products that increase the size of your manhood?
You're not alone. According to a story in today's New York Times, global spam has dropped by 20% in the last month, a reduction of about 50 billion emails.
The change is attributed Read More
If political/financial/sports journalist Matt Taibbi were writing the introduction to this slideshow, he would probably do something self-referential, exaggerated and parodic. Something like, "Throughout his aggressive, mischievous, occasionally drug-fueled career, Taibbi has made cunnilingus jokes about a secretary of state, found the lighter side in the death of a Pope and chronicled the historical role Read More
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev handed out top state honors to the ten spies who worked in the U.S. as undercover foreign intelligence agents, the New York Post reports. The ceremony would have been your average, run-of-the-mill award reception at the Kremlin if not for the appearance of Anna Chapman, the heart-stopping espionage pin-up and Read More
The Vancouver Gallery moves to avoid marijuana fumes, a Chelsea gallery owner and a media magnate are sued for swindling artists, and Russian curators are indicted for a controversial exhibition. This week in art news: art worlders getting into trouble. 1. Versailles to Hold Annual Contemporary ExhibitionsJapanese artist Takashi Murakami will be the next artist Read More
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, a sturdy and completely bald Israeli named Yuval Tal was in Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the nightly entertainment includes the Chippendales and Penn & Teller.
Mr. Tal, behind a microphone in a blazer and open-collar shirt, was one of five international visionaries, as the brochure for the Read More
