Kissogram

Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel works on his mural of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker, painted on the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, Germany yesterday. A 1,300 metre stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from West Berlin.