In July, a Russian blue kitten was tossed from a car on the Verrazano Bridge and received media hoopla.

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No blue-chip Russian company has done this before.

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At Christie's, Boris Kustodiev's iconic 1923 painting "The Coachman" depicts a jolly Russian in a voluminous, bright-blue winter costume, arms out in a welcoming gesture.

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In 2007 Nabucco will be forced to accept Russian involvement, including a hook-up to the underused Blue Stream pipeline that links Russia and Turkey.

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One of the dining rooms, painted blue with enormous swags and tassels, is inspired by the 19th-century Russian painter Leon Bakst.

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Yellow Blue Bus is all about the love (Ya lyublyu vas means 'I love you' in Russian).

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They plan to work with local artists to recreate the lobby's original murals, the work of a Russian painter, but the renovation is also adding distinctly contemporary elements, such as an incandescent blue sushi bar overlooking the main lobby.

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