Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his monumental and often polarizing public works, died Monday at the age of 91, his assitant told state media.
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tsereteli rose to prominence in the…
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New York’s Hottest Playwright? Anton Chekhov.
Despite Russian propaganda’s repeated claims that Russian culture is being “canceled” in the West, the most popular playwright in New York right now is — somewhat surprisingly — Anton…
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Walk the ‘Green Mountains’ of the Caucasus with Author Caroline Eden
Can you tell us about your “color trilogy”?
Green Mountains, my new book, is the final book in my ‘color trilogy’, following on from Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes — Through Darkness and…Continue Reading
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Who Invented Gingerbread – Europe or Russia? Who Cares?!
Everyone loves gingerbread. Unlike okroshka, Lenten buckwheat with mushrooms or steamed turnips, this mainstay of old Russian cuisine does not have nay-sayers.
Gingerbread is a universal favorite —…
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In ‘The Illegals’ Author Shaun Walker Unravels the Messy Lives of Spies
“This is the FBI, your parents are from Siberia.”
“I just thought it was a really wild family story,” Shaun Walker told The Moscow Times, describing the arrests that inspired his sweeping study of Russia’s deep-cover spy…
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For the Love of Soups
Soups have been a mainstay in Russian cuisine for all of recorded history. In other countries young people might skip soup at lunch, but not in Russia. At home or at work, soup is an essential part of…
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Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2025 Book Prize
Pushkin House has announced the short list for this year’s Book Prize. They are:
These six books will be read and debated by this year’s jury, which is chaired by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Professor of Russian Politics and Director…
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Inside Russia’s ‘Micro-Politics’: Ethnographer Jeremy Morris on the Quiet Resilience of Daily Life
For over 25 years, British ethnographer Jeremy Morris has been traveling to the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow. The largely provincial region first appeared as the backdrop to his debut book on…
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‘Make the Pushkin Museum Great Again’: After a Game of Musical Chairs, New Director Toes the Official Line
“I came so I can make Pushkinsky great again,” said Olga Galaktionova, the new director of Moscow’s renowned Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, at her first press conference in her new…
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Slightly Sinful Nut-Filled Pancakes – The Moscow Times
Our ideas about fasting during Lent in the past, like so many of our ideas about pre-revolutionary life in general, are often very far from reality. The common belief is that centuries ago all Russians…
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