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For fans of reigning Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg, football sometimes seem more important than life and death. A few days before the last game, it was announced that supporters would not [...]

Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest feature film, Dear Comrades begins in June 1962 with a simple premise: the workers of Novochercassk are protesting and the local government is struggling to [...]

Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908) is touted as the father of modern Jewish theatre – but his ambitions were not always community-driven as many would like to believe. The Rise of the Modern [...]

Despite spending a lot of time in Russia, I don’t like Russian food. For me, it has always been about buckwheat, mayonnaise covered “salads”, and rye bread. While in Russia, I preferred eating [...]

A Palace for Putin, Alexei Navalny’s latest anti-corruption video, has taken the internet by storm, much to the grievance of Vladimir Putin. On January 19, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) [...]

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]

February editorial. ‘Bring us some vodka,’ said Yulia Navalnaya, as she calmly removed her facemask on board the Pobeda Airlines flight from Berlin to Moscow, ‘we’re flying home.’ After a botched [...]

Have you ever read a book that was so good you couldn’t put it down? What about an academic text? That’s how I felt about Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana [...]

 “The history of using Mongolian script for the Buryat language was erased by the Soviet educational system. Reviving it has become such a complex tangle that sometimes I ask myself, ‘do people [...]