! ! ! ! Investigators Increase Pressure on Gudkov Investigators take a step toward charging the opposition- minded State Duma deputy with breaking the law. Page 3 Price of Top Housing Showing Fastest Rise Moscow tops the rest of Europe for skyrocketing prices of luxury housing. Page 7 City Hall to Promote Farming in New Areas The city of Moscow will promote agribusinesses in the recently annexed territories, Sharonov says. Page 7 Obscure Islamist Claims Kazan Attacks Tatarstan investigators announce that they are searching for the militant and his associate. Page 3 Chechens Charged After U.S. Tip Spain jails the two suspects incommunicado and indefinitely until a date is set for court proceedings. Page 3 Venture Fund Backs Avalanche DFJ VTB Capital Aurora invests in Avalanche Technology. Page 5 Gymnast Takes Russia’s 5th Gold Aliya Mustafina upsets the favorites by taking the gold medal on the uneven bars. London Olympics, Page 4 By Natalya Krainova T H E M O S C OW T I M E S A British lawmaker attended the Pussy Riot trial on Monday “to give a bit of ex- tra attention” to the three members of the all-female punk band who face up to seven years in prison for a church perfor- mance in which they denounced Presi- dent Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill. Meanwhile, the judge refused to allow the defense to question the co-author of an expert opinion that the February per- formance at Moscow’s Christ the Sav- ior Cathedral was motivated by religious hatred. The criminal charge against the band is based on that statement. The judge also rejected for a seventh time a request by the defendants and their lawyers to recuse herself from the trial over multiple violations of their rights. The verdict for the three arrested band members — Maria Alyokhina, 24; Nade- zhda Tolokonnikova, 22; and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 — on felony charges of hooliganism motivated by religious ha- tred is expected later this week, defense lawyers said. The women have been in custody since early March. British Shadow Chancellor Kerry McCarthy said she wanted to “give a bit of extra attention” to the trial because she was “quite concerned by the fact that [the defendants] were imprisoned for what didn’t seem like a serious matter and couldn’t see their children.” “It seems strange to me that they have been charged with this offense,” she told The Moscow Times during a break in- side the courtroom at Moscow’s Kham- ovnichesky District Court. “In the U.K., they would have been charged with a breach of peace and told off or fined.” When McCarthy started following the trial, she saw that the defendants “weren’t able to call their witnesses” and that other violations of their rights were taking place, she said. Asked whether she saw the trial as po- litically motivated, she replied, “Every- thing I’ve read about it would lead me to think that.” But she noted that she wouldn’t like to express her personal opinion of whether it was “a political thing or not.” McCarthy also was tweeting about the trial Monday and said she intended to write some articles about the trial upon returning home. Defendants and their lawyers asked the judge on Monday to summon the BritishLawmakerDefendsPussyRiot By Anatoly Medetsky T H E M O S C OW T I M E S BIRYUZOVAYA KATUN, Al- tai Republic — Foreign Minister Ser- gei Lavrov loves rafting in this Sibe- rian area, which borders Mongolia and China, a vacation that he reportedly takes every year. He doesn’t apparently spread the word about the place among many for- eigners — or maybe they don’t like the challenging sport. The word Altai seems to ring hollow to rafters and ecotourists outside Russia. Special Economic Zones, the state company that develops industrial, re- search and tourism activity in desig- nated areas, is working to change that. It is investing in the construction of two tourist zones in the Altai Moun- tains, which, in addition to Siberian va- cationers, could draw a portion of the foreigners who travel to Russia to have fun. “We are hoping that the number of foreign tourists here will increase,” Spe- cial Economic Zones chief Oleg Kostin told reporters Monday. On top of little awareness about the region, a substantial impediment to many tourists is the high price of taking a plane there, Kostin conceded. A four- hour flight from Moscow to Gorno- Altaisk, the city that’s the closest to the resorts, costs about 32,000 rubles ($1,000) for the round trip. The brand new Gorno-Altaisk air- port began accepting flights in June and didn’t look busy when an S7 Airlines Airbus jet landed there recently. In fact, it was the only plane on the tarmac. ForeignTouristsNotAwareofAltaiResorts See ALTAI, Page 2 See RIOT, Page 2 Boaters enjoying themselves on the Katun River in the Altai Mountains, where two special economic zones are improving conditions for tourists. ANATOLY MEDETSKY / MT CENTRAL BANK RATES RTS INDEX 2.52% 1,433.54 EURO 0.13 39.54 USD 0.59 31.95 Shadow Chancellor Kerry McCarthy was “concerned” about imprisonment for “what didn’t seem like a serious matter,” she said. No. 4943 WWW.THEMOSCOWTIMES.COM August 7, 2012 Tuesday advertising Main Partner of 20th Anniversary of The Moscow Times 2012marksthe20thanniversary of TheMoscowTimes 16 ! Tuesday, August 7, 2012 The Moscow Times A R T S & I D E A S By Christopher Brennan S P E C I A L TO T H E M O S C OW T I M E S Somewhere in the middle of Rus- sia a man is driving westward in a big red truck. The truck has two large containers with the word “everything” emblazoned in white on the side, and is heading to Kazan, in search of unknown artists. Anyone can bring along their art and has the chance of getting an honored place in the Museum of Everything. The Museum of Everything is a unique project founded by James Brett that has opened its doors previously to artists in Britain. After Kazan, the truck will head to Nizhny Novgorod and St. Petersburg be- fore displaying the best of the unknown art at the Garage Center for Contempo- rary Culture in Gorky Park in Septem- ber. Brett spoke with The Moscow Times from the first stop on the tour, Yekaterin- burg. Q: What is the idea behind coming to Rus- sia? A: There’s a history of what they call “naive art” in Russia, but these kinds of artists don’t really appear and I bet they’re there. So we came up with this plan of a show that would really be an experiment more than anything else. To see if we could connect to contemporary self-taught artists who are out there, in Russia, making work and not being given any visibility. We always knew it was go- ing to be an experiment. When we open the show, the show is empty. The show doesn’t begin until the artists come with the work. Q: What do you look for when you solicit pieces of art? A: What we’re looking for pre- dominantly are people who are mak- ing something as personal expression. Not thinking about the market, not thinking about a show. Just making be- cause they have to or want to make. We are very open to who those people are. And sometimes the most unlikely peo- ple are the most exceptional artists. For example, one of the art- ists we showed in London was Ju- dith Scott, an artist who at the age of 50 started making art in a studio. And she was a twin who had Down Syn- drome and she didn’t talk, she didn’t hear. She wouldn’t have even been able to tell you that what she was making was art, but actually they are these phenom- enal objects. In almost every society there was this schism that happened at some point where somebody creating a big mu- seum said this is art and this is not art. It’s almost like the guy drinking too much beer in the corner of the pub carving a [wooden] stump into a face was not art. He was just that guy that we don’t talk to. Contemporary art has shifted it, I believe. We can look at those things and say they have beauty. Q: Are you hoping for anything particular from Russian artists? A: I think so. I think there’s a tradition of making in this country and expressing yourself visually. There was an exhibition a few years ago of people making objects out of the wrong things. And this sort of thing of making is somehow is very inside Russian culture. There’s also this folk tradition that is very strong from which some of the naive art sprang. So I’m hop- ing for the clash of that together with the current political mood, that there’s voices being heard that haven’t been heard in my lifetime coming to the fore. I’m hop- ing that the clash of those two forces will result in people who have something to say bringing it forward, people who five, 10 years ago would not have come along; that they’ll bring works. Q: What do you think of the relationship between the traditional art world and the Museum of Everything? A: It’s interesting. I think its mixed if I’m honest. I think that very specific art- ists and curators are very supportive. But at the same time very many are … I used to live in Los Angeles, I studied film in Los Angeles. And something happens in Los Angeles where people are incredibly enthusiastic about what you tell them and are being incredibly enthusiastic in order to negate you. There’s a big proportion of the art world that does that. You have to have a good radar. Our biggest supporters are artists themselves because the peo- ple that we show are often the people that inspire them. Because they see that this stuff is absolutely truthful. And any good artist is trying to be truthful and commu- nicate truthfully. Q: What are your impressions of the work you have seen in Russia so far? A: It’s much more Russian. We see a more Russian imagery. There are older artists who are very gifted in terms of their ability to see something and repre- sent it … but they [often] copy a famous Russian artist … For everyone who does they’re own thing, there’s five who copy. There’s a woman who made over 300 three-dimensional recreations of famous artworks. A three-dimensional “Guer- nica.” The most exceptional thing about it is that it’s only 50 centimeters wide. See www.museumofeverything.com for more details about the museum. TouringMuseumSeeksSelf-TaughtRussianArtists A model of the museum’s truck. The Museum of Everything is traveling to four cities in search of unknown artists. MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING Lifestyle Guide2012 presents Aug 2012 ! ! ! ! ! Investigators Increase Pressure on Gudkov Investigators take a step toward charging the opposition- minded State Duma deputy with breaking the law. Page 3 Price of Top Housing Showing Fastest Rise Moscow tops the rest of Europe for skyrocketing prices of luxury housing. Page 7 City Hall to Promote Farming in New Areas The city of Moscow will promote agribusinesses in the recently annexed territories, Sharonov says. Page 7 Obscure Islamist Claims Kazan Attacks Tatarstan investigators announce that they are searching for the militant and his associate. Page 3 Chechens Charged After U.S. Tip Spain jails the two suspects incommunicado and indefinitely until a date is set for court proceedings. Page 3 Venture Fund Backs Avalanche DFJ VTB Capital Aurora invests in Avalanche Technology. Page 5 Gymnast Takes Russia’s 5th Gold Aliya Mustafina upsets the favorites by taking the gold medal on the uneven bars. London Olympics, Page 4 By Natalya Krainova T H E M O S C OW T I M E S A British lawmaker attended the Pussy Riot trial on Monday “to give a bit of ex- tra attention” to the three members of the all-female punk band who face up to seven years in prison for a church perfor- mance in which they denounced Presi- dent Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill. Meanwhile, the judge refused to allow the defense to question the co-author of an expert opinion that the February per- formance at Moscow’s Christ the Sav- ior Cathedral was motivated by religious hatred. The criminal charge against the band is based on that statement. The judge also rejected for a seventh time a request by the defendants and their lawyers to recuse herself from the trial over multiple violations of their rights. The verdict for the three arrested band members — Maria Alyokhina, 24; Nade- zhda Tolokonnikova, 22; and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 — on felony charges of hooliganism motivated by religious ha- tred is expected later this week, defense lawyers said. The women have been in custody since early March. British Shadow Chancellor Kerry McCarthy said she wanted to “give a bit of extra attention” to the trial because she was “quite concerned by the fact that [the defendants] were imprisoned for what didn’t seem like a serious matter and couldn’t see their children.” “It seems strange to me that they have been charged with this offense,” she told The Moscow Times during a break in- side the courtroom at Moscow’s Kham- ovnichesky District Court. “In the U.K., they would have been charged with a breach of peace and told off or fined.” When McCarthy started following the trial, she saw that the defendants “weren’t able to call their witnesses” and that other violations of their rights were taking place, she said. Asked whether she saw the trial as po- litically motivated, she replied, “Every- thing I’ve read about it would lead me to think that.” But she noted that she wouldn’t like to express her personal opinion of whether it was “a political thing or not.” McCarthy also was tweeting about the trial Monday and said she intended to write some articles about the trial upon returning home. Defendants and their lawyers asked the judge on Monday to summon the BritishLawmakerDefendsPussyRiot By Anatoly Medetsky T H E M O S C OW T I M E S BIRYUZOVAYA KATUN, Al- tai Republic — Foreign Minister Ser- gei Lavrov loves rafting in this Sibe- rian area, which borders Mongolia and China, a vacation that he reportedly takes every year. He doesn’t apparently spread the word about the place among many for- eigners — or maybe they don’t like the challenging sport. The word Altai seems to ring hollow to rafters and ecotourists outside Russia. Special Economic Zones, the state company that develops industrial, re- search and tourism activity in desig- nated areas, is working to change that. It is investing in the construction of two tourist zones in the Altai Moun- tains, which, in addition to Siberian va- cationers, could draw a portion of the foreigners who travel to Russia to have fun. “We are hoping that the number of foreign tourists here will increase,” Spe- cial Economic Zones chief Oleg Kostin told reporters Monday. On top of little awareness about the region, a substantial impediment to many tourists is the high price of taking a plane there, Kostin conceded. A four- hour flight from Moscow to Gorno- Altaisk, the city that’s the closest to the resorts, costs about 32,000 rubles ($1,000) for the round trip. The brand new Gorno-Altaisk air- port began accepting flights in June and didn’t look busy when an S7 Airlines Airbus jet landed there recently. In fact, it was the only plane on the tarmac. ForeignTouristsNotAwareofAltaiResorts See ALTAI, Page 2 See RIOT, Page 2 Boaters enjoying themselves on the Katun River in the Altai Mountains, where two special economic zones are improving conditions for tourists. ANATOLY MEDETSKY / MT CENTRAL BANK RATES RTS INDEX 2.52% 1,433.54 EURO 0.13 39.54 USD 0.59 31.95 Shadow Chancellor Kerry McCarthy was “concerned” about imprisonment for “what didn’t seem like a serious matter,” she said. No. 4943 WWW.THEMOSCOWTIMES.COM August 7, 2012 Tuesday advertising Main Partner of 20th Anniversary of The Moscow Times 2012marksthe20thanniversary of TheMoscowTimes advertising Coming next — “Auto” — August 30. Read our special section “Highlights From the Industry.” Key events in the nation’s top industries from the past two decades. To advertise, please contact Alla Naumova • a.naumova@imedia.ru • +7 495 232 4774 16 ! Tuesday, August 7, 2012 The Moscow Times A R T S & I D E A S Отпечатано в ОАО “Московская газетная типография” 123995, г. Москва, ул. 1905 года, дом 7, стр. 1. Заказ № 2810. Тираж 35000. Цена свободная Любое воспроизведение материалов или их фрагментов на любом языке возможно только с письменного разрешения редакции. Номер подписан в печать в 22:52. By Christopher Brennan S P E C I A L TO T H E M O S C OW T I M E S Somewhere in the middle of Rus- sia a man is driving westward in a big red truck. The truck has two large containers with the word “everything” emblazoned in white on the side, and is heading to Kazan, in search of unknown artists. Anyone can bring along their art and has the chance of getting an honored place in the Museum of Everything. The Museum of Everything is a unique project founded by James Brett that has opened its doors previously to artists in Britain. After Kazan, the truck will head to Nizhny Novgorod and St. Petersburg be- fore displaying the best of the unknown art at the Garage Center for Contempo- rary Culture in Gorky Park in Septem- ber. Brett spoke with The Moscow Times from the first stop on the tour, Yekaterin- burg. Q: What is the idea behind coming to Rus- sia? A: There’s a history of what they call “naive art” in Russia, but these kinds of artists don’t really appear and I bet they’re there. So we came up with this plan of a show that would really be an experiment more than anything else. To see if we could connect to contemporary self-taught artists who are out there, in Russia, making work and not being given any visibility. We always knew it was go- ing to be an experiment. When we open the show, the show is empty. The show doesn’t begin until the artists come with the work. Q: What do you look for when you solicit pieces of art? A: What we’re looking for pre- dominantly are people who are mak- ing something as personal expression. Not thinking about the market, not thinking about a show. Just making be- cause they have to or want to make. We are very open to who those people are. And sometimes the most unlikely peo- ple are the most exceptional artists. For example, one of the art- ists we showed in London was Ju- dith Scott, an artist who at the age of 50 started making art in a studio. And she was a twin who had Down Syn- drome and she didn’t talk, she didn’t hear. She wouldn’t have even been able to tell you that what she was making was art, but actually they are these phenom- enal objects. In almost every society there was this schism that happened at some point where somebody creating a big mu- seum said this is art and this is not art. It’s almost like the guy drinking too much beer in the corner of the pub carving a [wooden] stump into a face was not art. He was just that guy that we don’t talk to. Contemporary art has shifted it, I believe. We can look at those things and say they have beauty. Q: Are you hoping for anything particular from Russian artists? A: I think so. I think there’s a tradition of making in this country and expressing yourself visually. There was an exhibition a few years ago of people making objects out of the wrong things. And this sort of thing of making is somehow is very inside Russian culture. There’s also this folk tradition that is very strong from which some of the naive art sprang. So I’m hop- ing for the clash of that together with the current political mood, that there’s voices being heard that haven’t been heard in my lifetime coming to the fore. I’m hop- ing that the clash of those two forces will result in people who have something to say bringing it forward, people who five, 10 years ago would not have come along; that they’ll bring works. Q: What do you think of the relationship between the traditional art world and the Museum of Everything? A: It’s interesting. I think its mixed if I’m honest. I think that very specific art- ists and curators are very supportive. But at the same time very many are … I used to live in Los Angeles, I studied film in Los Angeles. And something happens in Los Angeles where people are incredibly enthusiastic about what you tell them and are being incredibly enthusiastic in order to negate you. There’s a big proportion of the art world that does that. You have to have a good radar. Our biggest supporters are artists themselves because the peo- ple that we show are often the people that inspire them. Because they see that this stuff is absolutely truthful. And any good artist is trying to be truthful and commu- nicate truthfully. Q: What are your impressions of the work you have seen in Russia so far? A: It’s much more Russian. We see a more Russian imagery. There are older artists who are very gifted in terms of their ability to see something and repre- sent it … but they [often] copy a famous Russian artist … For everyone who does they’re own thing, there’s five who copy. There’s a woman who made over 300 three-dimensional recreations of famous artworks. A three-dimensional “Guer- nica.” The most exceptional thing about it is that it’s only 50 centimeters wide. See www.museumofeverything.com for more details about the museum. TouringMuseumSeeksSelf-TaughtRussianArtists A model of the museum’s truck. The Museum of Everything is traveling to four cities in search of unknown artists. MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING !"#$%&'()*+%,-+)##.+ &,+/),0+12,-&+ 0'1&34+,)+()+5,46,07 A D V E R T I S I N G For more information please call Julia Saraf Phone: +7 (495) 232−3200 (ext. 3989) j.saraf@imedia.ru Lifestyle Guide2012 presents