MOSCOW JANUARY 2012 www.passportmagazine.ru Skating on Thin Ice? Roman Abramovich in Court Russia Joins the WTO Things to Do Over the Winter Escape to Ecuador Super Soup January_covers.indd 1 16.12.2011 11:26:54 January_covers.indd 2 16.12.2011 11:47:52 Contents 4. Previews Aline Kalinina 10. Theatre Review Marina Lukanina 4 12. Legal Alexander Ksenofontov 14. Literary Moscow The Museum Flat of Alexei Tolstoy, Marina Kashpar 16. Travel 14 Ecuador! Luc Jones 18. Out & About 22. The Way It Is Russia and the WTO, John Harrison Abramovich vs. Berezovsky, Ian Mitchell 22 Skolkova, Miguel Mitchell 30. The Way it Was Red Wedding part I, Helen Womack 32. Wining & Dining SOUP, John Harrison Seasonal Sips for a Supper Soiree or Shindig, Charles 34 Borden 38. Real Estate Year-end Review and Forecast, Vladimir Kozlov Real Estate News, Vladimir Kozlov 41. Family Pages Puzzle Page 38 Fables for Children 44. Profile Alan Moore, Miguel Francis 45. Book Review Piracy: Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg 44 to Gates, review by Ian Mitchell January 2012 3 Letter from the Publisher “You can fool all the people civility of the crowd, which was of us who lived here in the 1990s some of the time, you can even not demanding a revolution but know that in Russia anything is pos- fool some of the people all of the an end to attempts to fool them sible. The prospect of something time, but you cannot fool all of the at election time, was perhaps the unusual happening is not very people all the time,” said Abraham most amazing thing. Fair elections encouraging for investors, and for Lincoln. The demonstration at Bo- in Russia would of course be a rev- those of us who know that times lotnaya Ploschad on the 10th of olution of a sort, which is why the of change are also times of great December, which was attended by authorities are trying to make up turbulence. However we all hope upwards of 50,000 people, includ- for lost time and being very clever that, whatever awaits this country ing the PASSPORT team (two peo- about how they handle their crisis in the coming year, it will happen ple), demonstrates Ol’ Abe’s under- of middle-class voter confidence. without bloodshed and unneces- standing of twenty-first century We shall see how things unravel sary suffering. Happy New Year to John Ortega Russian politics. The determined in February and March, but those all our readers! Owner and Publisher Winter menu at Chicago Prime John Harrison Winter menus are put together with the Russian winter in mind, and are usually full of good solid meat and fish dishes. The winter menu at Chicago Prime has certainly been put together like this. The appetis- ers, such as Kamchatka Crab and lions with Apples, Dried Cranberry, The main dishes are wholesome, even recommend an appetiser or sal- Chicken Cocotte (350r), and Salmon Walnuts and Pumpkin Vinaigrette and include Barbeque Pork Ribs with ads to go with it and Scallop Ceviche with Blood (490r). grilled Potato and Onion Rings (950r). If you still have room for desert after Orange and Ginger sauce (450r) I love Miso from my vegetarian Thanks to the new international im- one of these dishes, there are two on are designed to give you some ex- days (before I moved to Moscow), and port regulations, Chicago Prime are offer: Orange, Honey Glazed Bananas tra vitamins to survive the winter so I went straight to the Seafood Miso now able to add Kobe Tomahawk with Assorted Sorbet (390r) and Rasp- months, as are the soups, for exam- Soup with Shrimp, Mussels, salmon with grilled Asparagus and Sweet berry and White Chocolate Feuillet ple: Smoked Chicken and Spinach and Scallops (420r) in the soup sec- White Onion Rings (5550r). This is a (490r). The former is lighter than the Salad with Bacon and a Dijon Vinai- tion. Just thinking about soup makes huge chunk of meat, almost a kilo- latter. Both were well presented and grette (390r) and Chilled Beef, Scal- my mouth water. gram, so large that the waiters don’t basically good. Enjoy the winter! Heat it up with Roni Glintvine When it’s very cold outside, there is only one pleasure to heat up with hot fragrant winter beverage – Glintvine, which is suitable for both reasons: to get warm in this coldest month and celebrate all the holidays we have during it. In Roni there is a special warm offer - buy one Glintvine, get one free. The offer is valid all January, all the day, but only if seated at the bar. 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Previews 10th Jubilee at Lumiere gallery Ten years ago in a 30 sq. metre space in also one of the few spots in the city where Boris Ignatovich, Yakov Khalip, Alexander the Central House of Artists a photogra- every exhibition is worth seeing if you Greenberg, Alexander Ustinov, Lev Boro- phy gallery opened, showing Soviet pho- love and study photography. In the gal- dulin, Vladimir Lagrange and Naum tography of the 1920s-50s. Today this is lery’s archives there are works by eminent Granovsky. In this decade, the gallery has one of the best galleries in Moscow, but Soviet photographers, among whom are published several retrospective books on the history of photography from the 1960s to the 1980s in the USSR. The gal- lery is celebrating its first adult jubilee with a notable exhibition of 150 collec- tion-level pictures, the crème-de-la- crème of Russian and Soviet photogra- phy. These are hand-printed originals, through which one can trace the evolu- tion of photography in the Soviet Union. Unlike in the West, where it was common practice for photographers to sign and stamp their photographs, for Soviet pho- tographers who seldom had exhibitions, prints were rare, which makes the prints on display, collected by the gallery or do- nated by the relatives of the photogra- phers, all the more precious. P December 9-January 15 Building 1, 3 Bolotnaya embankment Red October chocolate factory Open: 12.00 – 21.00, except Monday Stanley Kubrick: History in photographs 1945-1950 The Multimedia Art Museum pres- Look magazine in the 1940s in New work, as well as thousands of research ents a unique series of photographs by York. Stanley Kubrick has long been papers and hundreds of books. His the legendary 20th century film direc- recognised as one of the greatest di- films have been studied in great detail, tor, Stanley Kubrick, exhibited for the rectors in the history of cinematogra- but until now one aspect of the great first time in Moscow. Here are some phy. Hundreds of thousands of articles director’s talent has been largely ig- 200 of the images he produced for have been written about Kubrick’s nored. Few people know that Kubrick was a professional photographer. From his earliest years he was fascinated by photography and frame composition, and this gave rise to his passionate in- terest in films. The current exposition is thematically divided into series includ- ing “Etudes in the Subway”, secretly taken with a shutter trigger concealed in his pocket (1946); the dramatic “A Tale of a Shoeshine Boy” (1947); “Family Circus” (1950), inspired by perspectives of Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus; “Evening and Copacabana” (1948), re- vealing the backstage life of dancers; “Aqueduct Hippodrome” (1947), show- ing one of America’s favourite sports— racing; and many others. P November 18-January 29 Multimedia Art Museum Moscow 16, Ostozhenka street Open: 11:00 - 19:00 Except Monday 6 January 2012 Previews Godunov Pavel Kaplevich has been one of the most famous the- atrical designers in Russia since the 1990s. He created cos- tumes for such significant Russian theatre productions as “Nijinsky” starring Oleg Menshikov, and “Imago” starring Anastasia Verinskaya. Together with film director Vladimir Lungin he worked on the “Taxi-blues” movie. The image of Vladimir Mirzoev’s post-modernist theatre is based 100% on Kaplevich’s designs. For many years Kaplevich has cian performing Beatles songs with an all-male cast as in been an insider at one of Moscow’s leading theatres—the Shakespeare’s original “Globe” theatre.