May 01, 2012 Yevgeny Vakhtangov A noted actor, writer and director, Yevgeny Vakhtangov led a very strange and extraordinary life indeed.
May 01, 2012 Nixon Visits Moscow In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first sitting president to visit the Soviet Union. Another decade of Brezhnevian decline was to follow... History
May 01, 2012 Just Between Us A consideration of less than politesse descriptions of the other sex - what men say about women and what women say about men, when they are each speaking to those of their own gender... Language
May 01, 2012 Cycle of Violence The public is outraged by a police abuse scandal in Kazan. How far does it stretch, and why is the Kremlin not following up with serious reforms? Politics
May 01, 2012 Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky A pathbreaking scientific investigator of Slavic linguistics, Sreznevsky nonetheless helped fan the flames of nationalism and pan-Slavism. History
April 25, 2012 Tsoy Lives! There is not a single other figure in Russian rock – living or dead – who has attained the same sort of cult status as Victor Tsoy, who would have been 50 on June 21. And while Tsoy’s biography is well-known, it hardly explains how it is that the person and legacy of Victor Tsoy continues to this day to play such an important role in Russian culture - even in Russian mass culture. Culture Russia File
March 01, 2012 The Outcasts Join Forces Pariahs Germany and Soviet Russia make a pact in 1922 that sets the stage for decades of suffering. History
March 01, 2012 The White Ring Last Sunday morning I was ashamed of my children. We had sort of planned that we would all go together to take part in the Garden Ring demonstration, but one-by-one they deserted me... Politics Russia File
March 01, 2012 Alexander Herzen He was a poet, revolutionary, memoirist, publisher and emigre. He was a scion of the Bolsheviks, but he would have wanted nothing to do with them.
March 01, 2012 Travel Notes A round-up of travel related news from around Russia, from a new torture museum, to Moscow cafes that charge by the minute.
