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1. Moscow
   Moscow’s architecture and performing arts culture are world-renowned. Moscow is ... well known as the site of Saint Basil’s Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters. The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow also hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. For a long time, the view of the city was dominated by numerous Orthodox churches. The look of the city changed drastically during Soviet times, mostly due to Joseph Stalin, who oversaw a large-scale effort to modernise the city.
2. Moscow -- Moscow City
   Not surprisingly, given its political and cultural importance, Moscow is Russia's economic capital as well, attracting a substantial portion of foreign investment. The city is the country's primary business center, accounting for 5.7 percent of industrial production. More importantly, it serves as the home for most of Russia's export-import industry as well as a major hub for international and national trade routes. As a consequence, the standard of living of Muscovites is well above that of the rest of the country. All of this owes in large part to the substantial degree of economic restructuring that has occurred in the city since 1991 in response to the introduction of a market economy. There has been particularly strong growth in finance and wholesale and retail trade.
3. Moscow -- Central Moscow
   Moscow DOMODEDOVO International Airport (DME, UUDD) (http://www.domodedovo.ru/en/) is the Russian and Eastern European leader in terms of passenger flow and one of the three best airports in the Central and Eastern Europe. According to performance results of January - November 2007 Domodedovo maintains leading position in terms of passenger traffic in Moscow aviation hub. Passenger throughput amounted to 17 353 311 air travelers in January - November 2007, a 22.1% increase over the same period in 2006. Domodedovo handled 15.37 million passengers and 126,300 tonnes of cargo in 2006.
4. Moscow -- Moscow Kremlin
   During the 14 and the first half of 15 centuries Moscow was a relativly large city with big industrial/trade population. In the end of 15th century, during Ivan III princing, Moscow becomes a capital of Russia. Moscow Kremlin, that was built in the beginning of the 15 century, is a benchmark of that epoch. For the purpose of improving the defence of Moscow and of its inhabitants, a number of defence buildings and big closters, like Novodevichy - from south-west, Donskoy and Danilovsky - from south, Simonov and Novospassky - from south-east and Andronnikov - from the east, were constructed.
5. Andrei Tarkovsky -- Moscow Institute
   Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on April 4, 1932, in the Russian town of Zavrazhye, located on the Volga River, about 500 kilometers northeast of Moscow in the Kostroma Region. Members of the Tarkovsky family were members of the Russian intelligentsia. His father, Arseny, was a poet and a translator while Tarkovsky's mother, Maria Ivanovna, was primarily an editor at the First State Publishing House in Moscow and ... an actress. Tarkovsky also had a younger sister, Marina, who became a philologist. Tarkovsky was four years old when his parents separated; they ultimately divorced. His father remarried twice, but his mother never married again.
6. Moscow -- Russian Federation
   Moscow is a place where you will find any kind of entertainment you could imagine. You can visit both main stream dance music parties, as well as alternative and ethno-music gigs. Few cinemas have shows in English (with Russian subtitles) and there are some great old Russian classics movies on sometimes.
7. Disarmament -- Moscow Agreement
   While the deal gives North Korea half of what it initially demanded, it's twice as much fuel oil as was offered to Kim Jong Il during the Clinton adminstration's 1994 U.S.-North Korea disarmament agreement. That deal would have sent 500,000 tons of fuel oil a year to North Korea, but it was squashed five years ago when North Korea was accused of conducting a secret uranium enrichment program.
8. Marat Safin -- Moscow Russia
   Mr. Marat Safin, President of The Marr Group stated, "We are pleased to have assisted Calypte in obtaining approval for its Aware(TM) HIV-1/2 Oral Fluid rapid tests. It is well documented that young people aged 15 to 29 are increasingly bearing the brunt of new HIV infections and the number of reported cases of pregnant women with HIV has continued to increase significantly over the past few years. Marr is committed to be affiliated with these efforts to ensure the availability of this non-invasive test as a key component in a comprehensive response to combating the combined challenges of HIV and injection drug use in the Russian Federation."
9. Russian Theater -- Moscow Art Theater
   In the first English-language collection to examine twenty-first-century Russian theater, this special issue of Theater ... includes the complete texts of two new Russian plays, published for the first time in English. Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen is a poetic panorama of new Russian identity set to techno music, and Danila Privalov’s 5-25 explores traditional Dostoyevskian existential themes in the language of a new generation. One contributor chronicles the sweeping cultural and institutional changes in the Russian theater since 2000, while another provides an overview of the regional theater system in the world’s most geographically vast country. Another essay explores the development of the new playwriting movement, identifying its key writers and producers. This special issue also includes interviews with the movement’s directors and producers. Additionally, it contains letters, previously unpublished in English, from the Moscow Art Theater’s Olga Bokshanskaya to the Russian theatrical titan Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, reporting on the Moscow Art Theater’s legendary U.S. tour in 1920–22, which was recorded in theater history as a turning point for American acting.
10. Time Travel -- Science
    If the time warp and superliminal wormhole ideas of science prove impossible, then perhaps suspended animation might serve as the only practical way to travel long distances through space. If this serves the case then such beings may have already evolved to take advantage of this. If so, how could they keep in touch with each other?

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