May 01, 2009 Olympian Drama The mayoral election in Sochi sets the stage for the 2014 Winter Olympics, and for municipal democracy.
May 01, 2009 Completing the Circle We check back in with Nikolai Gernet, on how the economic crisis is affecting Arkhangelsk oblast.
May 01, 2009 Into the Screening Room Where we review four recent films from or about Russia and a new television series appearing on PBS.
May 01, 2009 Faith in Progress One fine spring day, a new telephone appeared in the village of Chukhrai. A beautiful thing. But it connected to no one or no thing.
May 01, 2009 Uchites 03 The third edition of our Uchites language insert, sponsored by Russkiy Mir Foundation, uses the theme of plagiarism to explore grammar, build vocabulary and facility in reading Russian. Language
March 20, 2009 Happy Birthday Nikosha Gogol! Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is one of Russia's greatest and yet least appreciated writers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and other classics, said that "we all came out of Gogol's Overcoat." What he meant is that Gogol was completely unlike any Russian writer who preceded him, and that all Russian literature that followed was indebted to him. Humor Literature Russia File
March 01, 2009 825 Yards for Barack The financial crisis offers a pretext to return to a consideration of "despicable metal" and how it is influencing Russian speech.
