Decaying City Turns To The Arts For Salvation (This Time, In Central Russia, It’s Working)

“In a region once known best for producing rockets, petrochemicals and salt – and for incarcerating dissidents in Gulag prison camps – [the city of] Perm is banking on contemporary art, architecture and theater to overcome its weighty past. … The Russian media are already calling it ‘Bilbao on the Kama’.”