The Moonies have landed in Russia. But just what do the followers of this controversial church -- some call it a cult -- really stand for?
Their claims are both simple and grandiose: that their church will save the world. Where science and technology have failed, the coming of the Messiah, in the form of the Rev Sun-Myung Moon, will triumph.
It is said that "punctuality is a sovereign's prerogative," and nowhere is this more true than in the Winter Palace. If the Tsar's clock couldn't mark time here, then whose could? That's why Tsar Alexander II bought one of the most lavish, complicated and
expensive clocks ever made, and even paid over the odds for it when he failed to win it in a raffle.
When it comes to playing games, adults can be as bad as children, and perhaps this isn't surprising since in each of us there's a hidden child just waiting to jump out!
If ever there were an art opening in the mythical, male-less land of the Amazons, it would look something like the scene at the opening of the "Woman and Her Time" exhibition at Peter and Paul Fortress.
