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Letter in Support of Eugenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk
On 4 May 2023, Russian theater director Eugenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk were detained in Moscow as suspects in a criminal case on “justifying terrorism” for their feminist...
The Vatnik Ate My Baby! (Russia's Alien Nations)
An American Vatnik would be a cartoon character made out of a MAGA hat.
Technology, Ideology and Culture: Legacies of Soviet-African Relations
Historians and anthropologists discuss the impacts and legacies of Soviet-African relations of the 20th century.
(Re)shaping Literary Canon in the Soviet Indigenous North
The native peoples of the Eurasian North—the Evenks, Nanai, Khanty, Nenets, Chukchi, Koryak or Eskimos—became objects of assimilation, extermination, and the creation of a written culture from scratch in the...
Anna Karenina, Runway Diva, or, Vengeance is mine, saith The Gap
All fashionistas are alike; all fashion victims are victims in their own way.
Evil Empire: Love It or Leave It (Russia's Alien Nations)
To some Russian audiences, the villains start looking uncomfortably…Russian.
Between Soviet Homeland and Yiddish Cosmos: Yevgeniy Fiks at the Stanton Street Shul
Yevgeniy Fiks’ solo exhibition “Himl un erd: Yiddish Cosmos” at Stanton Street Shul in New York (on view Sundays from 1–6pm, Mondays & Wednesdays from 4–7 pm, November 18–December 16)...
Review: Olga Zilberbourg's English-Language Debut, "Like Water and Other Stories"
In both content and form, Zilberbourg’s "Like Water" expands the boundaries of Russian-American fiction, showing new ways of writing immigrant lives.
Bitter Taste: How Gorky Saved Pushkin’s Honor by Closing His Café, Part III
Immediately after Gorky's death, rumors began to spread that he had been poisoned by chocolate candies sent to him from the Kremlin. Whether this is true or not, nobody knows....
Mother, Wife, and Activist? Opportunities and Obstacles to Women’s Civic Engagement in Russia
Women-led activism deserves a thoughtful examination in the contemporary Russian context, particularly because current debates continue to explicitly tie women to traditional gender roles.
The Baboon's War
There once was an island, and on that island grew a Coconut Grove. And in that Grove lived a Baboon — a very greedy Baboon.