Oleg Kashin’s new novel blends a resurrected Soviet-era sci-fi with some robust political satire, but for what audience?
The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here? Русский
Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the transition from socialism explain their attitudes?
Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the transition from socialism explain their attitudes?
Mainstream media in the west and Russia is fixated on the Russian president. Here’s why we’re not. Deutsch
This new history tells a compelling, if normative, story of how Russia’s journalists and entrepreneurs threw off their former shackles, only to put them back on again.
Putin's latest press conference saw a tacit admission of Russian forces in Ukraine and a denial that their presence was ever denied. Here are a few other points you may have missed.
Talk of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘ties to Russia’ reveals how the media present us with false choices. There must be a space for criticising both austerity politics and Russian state aggression – and for international solidarity.
As a testament to Soviet nostalgia, the plot of Moskvitch, My Love is peculiar: a father's blind pursuit of a car he can neither afford nor drive, hoping for a son who will never return.
Renewed tensions along the de-facto border between Georgia and South Ossetia have raised concerns in Tbilisi—and laid bare Georgia's political rivalries.
In The Underground, like his mixed-race hero, Hamid Ismailov is looking, above and below ground, for the answer to the question: what is 'Russianness'?
