Photographed by RECORD contributor Roland Halbe, Russia's vibrant "thread" wrapped domes at Dubai's World Expo spotlight global innovation and Russian creativity.
Since the 1990s, the U.S. State Department has been barred from spending public funds on world expo pavilions. The result has been a series of disasters: the U.S. was a no-show at the expo in Hanover, Germany, in 2000; it then built lackluster, overly commercialized pavilions for the 2005 and 2010 expos in Aichi, Japan, and Shanghai, China.
