“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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In Photos: Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Russia
Thousands of Muslim believers across Russia on Sunday celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.Many Muslims celebrate Eid by joining communal dawn prayers at mosques, followed by a…
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Victoria Lomasko’s ‘The Last Soviet Artist’ Chronicles Russia’s Path to Dictatorship
Victoria Lomasko’s new book “The Last Soviet Artist” was presented last week in the New York office of her American publisher, n+1.Together with her two previous works, “Forbidden Art” and “Other Russias” “The Last…
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How a Singer, a Writer and a Cook Spent Their Vacation in 1916
The Fyodor Shalyapin House Museum in St. Petersburg has a rare and fascinating document on exhibit: a 96-page ruled notebook with almost a thousand recipes written by the great opera singer’s personal…
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What We Know About Jude Law’s Upcoming Turn as Vladimir Putin
The first on-set photos of English actor Jude Law in his portrayal of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin” were released this week.
The film, an adaptation of Italian-Swiss writer…
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