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03.06.2009, 09:32 10 comments

Stripper teaches art to school kids

She teaches art to kids during the day and performs “Fairy Tales for Adults” at night. A scandal has rocked a school in a Russian city when it surfaced that a teacher-intern dances striptease at a night club.

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Miracles of the Yellow River coming to Moscow

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Photo by Mitchell Kanashkevich 09.03.2010, 08:25 3 comments

Teenage girl fights early marriage, setting precedent in rural India

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10.12.2009, 09:25 2 comments

Mother discovers her "dead" newborn on TV

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Chess wonder part time vendor

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30.09.2009, 08:59 2 comments

Sand-animating artist moves hearts

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Brenda Ann Kenneally (USA) first prize Daily Life (image from www.worldpressphoto.org) 23.06.2009, 13:40

World Press Photo comes to Moscow

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William Bruyere (image from www.museum.ru) 29.06.2009, 16:59

Long awaited abstraction from eccentric emigrant

His abstract paintings represent the schools of St. Petersburg, New York and Paris all at once. He’s often called eccentric, strange, and even mad. William Bruyere is even a friend of Joseph Brodsky and Eduard Limonov.

Double-jointed girls bend the imagination

Published: 12 June, 2009, 11:53


For hundreds of years contortionists have entertained crowds in Mongolia. The combination of gymnastics and circus antics is a form of art which requires its masters to start at a very young age.

 
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