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Radio Daze: Mysteries of The Russian Woodpecker
Over the course of the film, Alexandrovich develops the theory that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was intentionally set off to cover up the non-functionality of the supposedly seven-billion-ruble Pecker.
"Black Snow [Khara Khaar]": Sakhawood’s Latest Thriller is a Punishing, Yet Gripping Watch
No more than five minutes into Stepan Burnashnev's Black Snow, it becomes clear that Gosha is headed for big trouble. The winter landscape in the Sakha Republic is notoriously unforgiving,...
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
Amber Wars: Corruption and International Implications
While the conflict in the East has garnered much attention in the last few years, the illegal amber market plaguing Ukraine’s northwestern region is virtually unknown to the international community.
Behind the @RodionTweets Curtain: the Nuts and Bolts of Twitterifying Dostoevsky
At one point, Sarah Hudspith said she had to fight the urge to write “Sh*t! Got blood on my iPhone! #murderproblems”
The Paralympic Games’ Cinderella Story: Ukraine
It is critical that the disability rights movement in Ukraine find ways to ride the Paralympic wave of success.
Diary of a Tweeter: On Golyadkin, Raskolnikov, and the Search for Empathy
I broke one of the @RodionTweets rules.
Twitterature in the Dostoevsky Classroom
My adventure with Twitterature began three years ago, when I began to work with the North American Dostoevsky Society as their social media curator. I began a twitter account for...
The Precarity of Shishkin’s Bear Cubs
Far from naively portraying an untroubled nature, Shishkin's "Morning in a Pine Forest" critiques the same industrialization that would later produce mass-marketed chocolates like “Clumsy Bear.” Although the bears have...
Tweets from Underground
How would Raskolnikov use Twitter?
Gender Trouble in The Double: Masculinity in Dostoevsky’s Novella and Ayoade’s Film
Right from the outset, Ayoade’s film establishes the presence of a masculine hierarchy.
On Tweeting Part One of Crime and Punishment
“Where can I get an #axe at this time of day!”
Penile Servitude and the Police State
Sunday before last, on the drizzly police holiday, Petersburg performance artist Petr Pavlensky (b. 1984) sat stark naked in Moscow's sacred center and nailed his scrotum to the cold cobblestones...
Shaving Eisenstein in Manhattan
An old-fashioned shave, with a razor that in Russian they call “dangerous”; an uncannily private scene performed under an open sky, 800 feet over the sidewalks of the greatest city...
In Defense of Russia’s Holocaust on Ice
Has “Springtime for Hitler” finally met its match?
Russians are protesting! Why? A Monkey Cage Symposium
Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?
Rodion Raskolnikov, Your Tweet Archive is Ready
Two years ago, on May 1, 2016, the Twitter account @RodionTweets sent its first tweet. Since then @RodionTweets has livetweeted the events of Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, broken into...
A Balanchine for the New Millennium: Dana Genshaft and "Shadow Lands" at the Washington Ballet
A futuristic feeling pervades Dana Genshaft’s new work "Shadow Lands," the centerpiece of the Washington Ballet’s Three World Premieres this April at the Harman Center. Along with Ethan Stiefel’s Wood...
Тhе Story of the Russian “Winnie the Pooh,” Part I
"A Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump…a Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a Hoffable Hellerump!"
How Track 2 Diplomacy Might Help Ease Russian-Ukraine Tension
In some cases, where formal diplomacy has initially failed, other diplomatic tracks have fared better. In essence, the end goal of relationship-building is the same, but the means to this...