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Since the early 1990s, an interesting phenomenon has emerged in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus – some states that, despite having their own government and state apparatus, lack [...]

When Russia began gradually enforcing quarantines in late March, the country’s art community followed suit. Galleries transitioned to online, performance art became virtual, and recreating famous [...]

Louis Train reviews Evgeny Grishkovets's novel The Hemingway Game.

Amanda Sonesson reviews Sergei Lebedev's latest novel, The Goose Fritz, a story about "how the difference between life and death can lie in the specific order of a bunch of letters."

My body of collages is the result of the curiosity of an outsider on the subject of the USSR, an attempt to deeply comprehend Soviet art and culture through full immersion in the topic. Through [...]

It’s an unfortunate fact that no Russian writer since Solzhenitsyn has penetrated the Western consciousness; no composer since Shostakovich, and no playwright since Chekhov, either. But Russian [...]

Just a week before the seriousness of the ongoing pandemic really hit, when it was still possible – though a bit complicated – to travel between countries, I found myself in a hotel [...]

Vladimir Putin, the man, is shrouded in secret, despite the fact that Vladimir Putin, the president, maintains an extraordinarily public profile. What we know about Putin’s biography could barely [...]

Joseph Stalin left behind a bloody legacy. Countless millions of Soviet citizens met their end as a result of his policies. For some, this meant whittling away their foreseeable future in a [...]

Angela Stent’s previous book, The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian relations in the twenty-first century, became the definitive source on U.S.-Russia relations the moment it was published, in [...]