News State offers $40Bln bank aid By Ed Bentley Top government officials say the bailout will come from money earmarked for industry, and warn of imminent budget cuts

Comment Editorial - A strange, sexy beast Soviet power plus American technology will build socialism.

Comment Ignored in translation By Shaun Walker I've been dealing with an incident in the past couple of weeks that leaves me amazed by the provincialism and bizarre attitudes of certain sections of the Russian media.

News Despite murders, campaigning newspaper hopes to soldier on By Anna Arutunyan The editorial office of beleaguered opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta - five of whose staff members and journalists have been killed or died in mysterious circumstances in the last eight years - nestles in one of central Moscow's oldest districts, on Potapovsky Pereulok.

News The street turns left By Anna Arutunyan While many thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Russia last weekend, their bewildering array of causes, tactics and popular support varied wildly.

News Castro rekindles Soviet-era ties By Anna Arutunyan Cuban President Raul Castro visited the Russian capital this week in a historic trip that was dubbed the "crown" of efforts to reestablish ties with the Communist state since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

News Stalled car industry waits for a bailout By Ed Bentley and Daria Chernyshova As car factories resume production after extended New Year’s holidays, workers fear that firms may begin mass layoffs and salary cuts

Business How low can the rouble go? By Ed Bentley The rouble this week was hovering close to the Central Bank's latest line in the sand, 41 to the dollar, after the government has spent some $200 billion - one third of its international reserves - in managing the currency's decline against the dollar/euro basket in the last six months.

Columnists ‘Nasha Russia’ must go on By Vladimir Kozlov Have two of TV’s leading funny men really lost their funny bone, or are they just pulling our leg?

Restaurants & Bars Get Uighur with it By Jennifer Chater "The inspiration for Italian spaghetti" is the proud boast made by Uighur restaurants the world over. From Sydney to New York and now in Moscow, eateries specializing in this little-known Central Asian cuisine claim it was the Uighurs' lagman noodles that Marco Polo took back to Venice after his 13th century travels along the Silk Road to China - a souvenir that was copied, resulting in the Italian pasta classic.

Restaurants & Bars RESTAURANTS - Italian CUISINE - Truffaldino

Arts & Entertainment Dreadlock holiday By Vladimir Kozlov Bob Marley would have turned 64 on February 6, and local reggae fans are promised performances by some top international artists at two rival concerts celebrating the legendary Jamaican musician and singer-songwriter's birthday.

Concerts Concerts - James Blunt The biography of English acoustic singer-songwriter James Blunt is not exactly typical for a pop artist. Before embarking on his musical career, Blunt studied aerospace technology and sociology at university, and was later an officer in the Life Guards, a reconnaissance regiment of the British Army, serving under NATO in Kosovo during the military conflict in 1999.

Exhibitions Exhibitions – Jaume Plensa This is the first single-artist show in Moscow by Jaume Plensa, an internationally renowned contemporary artist and sculptor from Barcelona. Many of Plensa's sculptures adorn cities throughout the world, with one of his most notable works being the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Theater Theatre - La Bayadere "La Bayadere," which translates as "The Temple Dancer," is a ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus, and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg in 1877.