Moscow

  • Boisterous Boris

    Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
    By Dana Cook April 23, 2007

  • A Russian pop star fights domestic violence

    After 10 years of silence, Valeria speaks out about how she suffered at the hands of her husband.
    By Hillary Frey December 15, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    London KO's Paris for Olympics! Stunning fourth-round upset sends 2012 Games Thames-side. Dejected Parisians hint at retirement.
    July 6, 2005

  • Hide those thighs

    Moscow officials fight ads for a male strip club that display "massive loins."
    By Jack Boulware March 7, 2001

  • Russian dancing

    The night was sultry and vodka-filled, but the girl was from another world than my own.
    By Jeffrey Tayler July 13, 2000

  • Putin's puppet prostitutes

    Russia's president wants to censor a TV show that portrays him as a playboy.
    By Jack Boulware June 5, 2000

  • "Buddha's Little Finger" by Victor Pelevin

    In a novel by turns shabby, sexy and visionary, the Russian virtuoso captures post-perestroika Moscow in all its weirdness.
    By Craig Offman May 5, 2000

  • Better dead than red, white and blue

    By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
    By Jeffrey Tayler March 28, 2000

  • A Black Sea affair

    On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out.
    By Jeffrey Tayler March 24, 2000

  • Buff cut

    Hairstylists at a Moscow salon shampoo and trim in nothing but their high heels.
    By Hank Hyena February 18, 2000

  • From Russia with love

    Former KGB agent teaches vaginal wizardry at Moscow sex academy.
    By Hank Hyena February 1, 2000

  • I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice

    Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
    By Jock O'Connell November 18, 1999

  • A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia

    I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
    By Rolf Potts November 13, 1999

  • Cold plunges and sport singing: Life in a Russian kindergarten

    A wee New Yorker is sent to Rodnik, a temple of rigidity and complex grammar. And he loves it.
    By Mary MacVean October 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it inequity that bothers Goozner, or the billionaires? Plus: Susie Bright's "self-serving" open relationship; the elitism of "Sensation" defenses.
    Letters to the Editor October 8, 1999

  • Chili con carne, anyone?

    Vijai Maheshwari reports on the effect Russia's financial problems are having on the shopping habits of locals and expats in Moscow -- chili con carne, anyone?
    By Vijai Maheshwari September 14, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Ken Kalfus

    For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
    By Dwight Garner July 23, 1998

  • Someone to watch over me

    For one little boy whose babyhood was almost lost in a crowded Russian orphanage, it's not the educational toys and developmental stimuli that matter most.
    By Janis Cooke Newman June 9, 1998
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