After inking massive economic agreements and celebrating both the Year of China in Russia and the Year of Russia in China, it's no surprise that Russia is pulling out all the stops to build an ambitious pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010.

With 70 million visitors expected to visit Shanghai for the world's largest event, Russia can expect plenty of interest on the part of Chinese visitors who have seen Russian culture, food, and business take a prominent role in Chinese society, and one that's increased considerably since 1989, when the Russian Federation emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union while the People's Republic forcefully reasserted the primacy of Communist party rule even as reformist impulses surged.

Director General of the Russian architectural bureau Valeria Preobrazhenskaya explained that the pavilion will reflect a Russia that is highly multi-ethnic, receptive to new ideas and planning for a vibrant future. The pavilion's 12 red, white and gold towers—colors symbolizing purity, spirituality and joy—tilt in individual directions to symbolize a group of people dancing in a circle.

Though we at China Travel hold out hopes for a Russian plan to one-up the Belgian/E.U. pavilion's beer garden by devoting a tower to free-flow vodka (thus enhancing the "dancing building" experience), this remains pure triple-distilled speculation. Still, we're hoping that there's a vodka martini or two in there somewhere....

Check out the dancing pavilion buildings below. What do you think, Russian folk dance or Russian ballet?

All photos courtesy of the official Russian Expo site.

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