November 01, 2009 Plyuschenko Returns to the Ice After a three-year absence, Olympic champion Yevgeny Plyuschenko is staging a comeback. Sports
November 01, 2009 The Powers that Bully When governments or their agents bully citizens, it is everyone's responsibility to speak up.
November 01, 2009 Winter Holidays A colorful mix of pagan and Christian traditions influenced 19th century rural Russian Zimniye Svyatki (Winter Holidays). While many of these traditions did not survive the 20th century, they nonetheless tell us much about Russian culture today.
November 01, 2009 Terror, Pushkin and the Beatles Reviews of In the First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the documentary How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, and four other books: There is no Freedom Without Bread!, by Constantine Pleshakov, Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin, by Robert Chandler, Privet Amerika, and Terrible Tsarinas, by Henri Troyat.
November 01, 2009 Uchites 06 The sixth edition of our Uchites language insert, sponsored by Russkiy Mir Foundation, takes off on our story about a White Sea lighthouse keeper to explore antonyms, verb and adjective declensions, and offers a murder mystery puzzle. Language
October 01, 2009 Vermont Public Radio Interview Neil Charnoff of Vermont Public Radio just did a long interview with publisher Paul Richardson about Life Stories. You can listen to it here. Russia File
September 01, 2009 After I Leave, I'll Send You a Cup of Joe Where we look at the impact and impressions of Vice President Joe Biden's speech dissing Russia and its place in the world, just days after President Obama left Moscow and the "feel-good summit" with President Medvedev.
September 01, 2009 Paratrooper's Day August 2 is Paratroopers' Day. Which means lots of striped-shirted guys bathing in Moscow fountains...
