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SERGEY KUKSIN_RG
Kremlin kiss-in
Russia is a nation of strong sians uninspired. But Nikolai team put out an announcement your own then you had to find just slightly over 5,000 joined in. If Metro escalators are any-
Snog-bound
passions. The land of Anna Bulanov, a student at the Fi- on the Academy’s website, ex- out who else was participating. “Kissing is for many a very inti- thing to go by, then timidity
Karenina, Natasha Rostova nance Academy, tried to rekin- orting his fellow romantics to In order to register on the Guin- mate, private act. Few were about public displays of affec-
Moscow
and Evgeni Onegin inspires dle the spirit of love among his gather on Manezhnaya ploschad ness Book of Records’ radar, the brave enough to kiss in public, tion was clearly not the reason
many romantic dalliances all compatriots before the walls of and at a given signal start kiss- occasion would have had to have and especially following a com- for the event’s lack of success.
over the world and yet it seems the Kremlin. ing. Those who came as couples attracted 6,000 amorous cou- mand,” one of the participants Perhaps spontaneity is the key
that Cupid leaves modern Rus- Bulanov and his organisational had the easy job. If you came on ples’ active participation. But remarked. to Russians’ affections.
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Solovki After calm and prosperity, cruelty and ruin, it has found peace once again
Solovki was the 20th centu-
Top bank boss:
ry’s first death camp.
Enduring monastery in the White Sea
The prisoners’ treatment was
The rouble
calculated to kill them as
quickly as possible: starva-
is coming
tion, torture and hard labour
were effective weapons.
The story of the Solovetsky a three-day boat trip from have resisted even longer, Those whom the commissar The wild Nineties are over.
Monastery, on an archipelago the southern coast of the had a traitor not opened the had ordered to be eliminated The days of high returns
near the Arctic Circle in the White Sea. But in less than back gates. Some monks were executed. In 1934 the wedded to high risk have
White Sea, is a lesson in 100 years, it was home to a were killed, the rest forced prison was closed, as the pris- been consigned to the bin of
severity and fortitude – a hugely powerful monastery. into the new-style Ortho- oners proved to be more use- history, and today Russia is even up to 15pc, the relative
lesson that’s familiar to many By 1566, it had a quay, roads doxy. After several years of ful as free laboureres at So- the place that the wise inves- risks for the foresighted en-
Russians. and a stone monastery. devastation, Solovetsky viet construction sites. For tor can explore with confi- trepreneur are low.
A century later, it became the Monastery was renovated several decades, the island dence. This impressive economic
The monastery was founded centrepoint of an uprising by and re-blessed by the tsar. was in the hands of military This is the message from performance is, he argues,
in 1429 when three monks Old Believer monks against Calm followed until shortly institutions, and the build- Alexei Ulyukayev (pictured), further endorsed by interna-
(Zosima, Sabbatius and Her- the reformation of the Ortho- after the 1917 revolution, ings fell into decay. Today, deputy head of the Russian tional credit agencies, who
man, all now sanctified) fled dox Church. The tsar, Alexei when Solovki was closed and the restored buildings on So- Central Bank. consistently upgrade the
the Kirillo-Belozersky mon- Mikhailovich, turned on the designated a maximum secu- lovki makes those dark days He explains to Oleg Gladu- country’s sovereign ratings.
astery in northern Russia to monks with astonishing bru- rity prison. Bishops, noble- seem far away.
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nov how the economy is now All the evidence points to the
found a new, stricter order. tality. With staunch friends, men and others whom the founded on huge interna- fact that this is the right time
The picturesque archipelago large gardens and food re- Soviet commissars labelled tional reserves and low debt, to be in Russia.
they settled on – Solovetsky serves, they managed to hold “socially dangerous ele- More about Solovki on which means that while there
(shortened to Solovki) – was ANVAR GALEEV_RG out for seven years and could ments” were brought here. www.rbth.rg.ru could be dramatic returns, of TURN TO PAGE 3
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