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Author Elena Kostyuchenko Speaks About the Pushkin House Book Prize
Congratulations! Did you think you might win the Pushkin House Book Prize? I had a little hope, but the shortlist…
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Kazakhstan to Emerge as Regional Digital Hub with 5G Expansion
ASTANA – Kazakh mobile operators will expand 5G coverage in Astana, Almaty, Shymkent, and regional centers to complete the introduction…
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‘Of Caravan and the Dogs’: A Countdown to War from Inside the Newsroom
One hundred and thirty-eight days before his country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta was accepting the…
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Bears, Borsht, Floating Pies and Other Wonders of Imperial Russian Cuisine
What is the best way to instill love for the tsar and obedience to the authorities? This isn’t just a…
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2024 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Elena Kostyuchenko for ‘I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country’
On Friday evening the Pushkin House announced the winner of the 2024 Book Prize: “I Love Russia: Reporting From a…
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Trial of Russian Playwright and Director Moves Behind Closed Doors
A judge in Moscow ruled Thursday that the trial of a director and writer charged with “justifying terrorism” in an…
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Julie A. Cassiday’s ‘Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power and Putinism’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize
At the end of the Soviet era and dawn of Russia’s emergence as a state, the Russian media, and later…
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Laur Vallikivi’s “Words and Silences” is Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize
“Words and Silences – Nenets Reindeer Herders and Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic” is the first book by Estonian…
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Eat Like an Ancient Boyar – Healthfully
The cuisine of the Middle Ages is not a cuisine of pleasure or enjoyment. It is primarily a cuisine of…
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Serhii Plokhy’s ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize
Over a year into Russia’s grotesque full-scale invasion of Ukraine, disinformation and misconceptions of the conflict — fuelled both by…
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