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In which a retired Polish butcher explains how to live to be 100 and serenades us on his trumpet.

On borders, learning Polish, the influence of culture, and the importance of a sense of humor.

Clown horror is horrid for clowns, a ballet scandal on the silver screen, and a pack of protesting porkers. 

Two days in Irkutsk and one on Baikal, where we meet a soft-spoken mechanic and visit two very different tourist destinations.

A second post from Krasnoyarsk, where we meet a poetry-writing, rug-weaving centenarian.

How to be patriotic to a nonexistent country, get a proper education, and deal with a highway through your house. Plus buildings, bridges, and bratwursts to die for. 

Krasnoyarsk: knocking down stereotypes about Siberia and meeting a centenarian who will not be stopped.

On the importance of coffee, academicians, a museum, a rooster, the harvesting of turf, and collectivization. Oh, and Novosibirsk.

On the importance of coffee, academicians, a museum, a rooster, the harvesting of turf, and collectivization.

Quotable quotes from newsmakers and not.

On the preemptive shutdown of a ballet directed by Krill Serebennikov, who, subsequent to this issue going to press, was arrested on trumped up charges of financial fraud.

In which we look at the events of 1917 through the words and works of the politicians, artists, and luminaries living through them.