Moscow's b-boys.

• Position: RUSSIA - Break dancing - Brief article

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Although many Russian politicians, including President Vladimir Putin, have been railing against U.S. foreign policy, enthusiasm for Western popular culture is at an all-time high in Russia. This includes a community of young men who live the "b-boy" life--meaning they are devotees of break dancing. It came to us mostly from America," says Maksim Pavlenko, 29. "But we have just developed our own strain, our own direction, separately, but exactly in the hip-hop, the break-dance, the funk style." Russian cities are full of young people dressed in saggy jeans, bandannas, and T-shirts. Some...