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Eurasia
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Author Dan Healey’s ‘Gulag Doctors’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize
“Born of the devil and filled with the devil’s blood”: this was how Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with his typical…
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Mac ‘n’ Meat Made for Marines
In the Soviet period food didn’t get much public attention. Like the rest of daily life, it paled in the…
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Western Stars, Anti-War Rappers and Political Parodies: Russian Web Project Revisits ‘The Television We Lost’
Sting singing “I hope the Russians love their children too” from a Moscow TV studio. Appearances by Facebook CEO Mark…
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Russian Singer Monetochka’s New Song Inspires Emigres to Share Pre-War Memories
A new song by Russian pop star Monetochka is inspiring Russians to share videos on social media that show what…
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Russia Adds Exiled Actor Panin to ‘Terrorists and Extremists’ List
Russia has added the exiled actor Alexei Panin to its list of “terrorists and extremists,” the state-run TASS news agency…
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In Photos: National Folklore Festival Gets Underway in Tatarstan
Russia’s Karavon Folklore Festival took place in the republic of Tatarstan’s village of Russkoye Nikolskoye on Sunday. The festival aims…
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Pushkin House Shortlists Elena Kostyuchenko’s ‘I Love Russia’ for 2024 Book Prize
After living for two weeks in a psycho-neurological internat, a facility where Russia confines those with psychiatric illnesses who have…
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How to Ward Off Vampires and Foreigners: Garlic
Garlic is the best way to keep vampires away, as everyone knows. Russia has never had much trouble with vampires,…
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Russian Director at Cannes Denounces Moscow Theater Trial
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, competing for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, brandished a picture of two theater artists who went…
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A Porridge So Rich It Held Diamonds
The basis of the Russian diet historically has always been porridge. Even today porridges made with a variety of grains…
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