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French champagne is bubbling on the Black Sea coast. A hundred-year-old winery strives to make a respectable vintage in time for the 2014 Olympic games.

Sorrel Soup is this issue's recipe, provided by a Moscow restaurant that believes simple is better...

A few hundred words in this space cannot begin to do justice to the life and work of author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 

With each passing year, Russia's summer festivals are gaining ground as alternatives to the stifled city music scene...

All the news that fits from all across Russia.

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With time, we are finding out more and more about the events that led to the recent Russo-Georgian War in the Caucausus. Two very good recent accounts have been published...

Last Thursday, after several days of skirmishes and confrontation in the breakaway region of Ossetia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced a unilateral cessation of hostilities. Hours later, however, Saakashvili ordered his armed forces to undertake a full-scale assault on Ossetia...

Radek as a Source of Information

This morning, Vermont Public Radio called to interview me about Solzhenitsyn's legacy and his life in Vermont. I had just interviewed his wife, Natalya Dmitrievna, while in Moscow in May. We had planned to run that interview in our Nov/Dec issue, to coincide with what would have been the author's 90th birthday. But now we will push it up and run it in our Sep/Oct issue, which goes to press this week. 

Vladimir Korolenko has been completely forgotten as a writer...

Whenever I "hide a smile in my mustache," a certain old friend from across the ocean feels uneasy and nervous...