January 01, 2006 Difficult to be a Writer Forcing our heads down the rabbit hole of history, we gawk in disbelief at Stalin’s phantasmagorical world of denunciations, mass imprisonments and terror.
January 01, 2006 Half of the Sky A piece of autobiographical fiction about childhood in the Soviet Union, on the day of Leonid Brezhnev’s death. Fiction
January 01, 2006 Ballet Map of Russia Everyone has heard of the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky. But what about the great Perm company? Or those of Buryatia or Kazan? Climb aboard, the tour begins now.
January 01, 2006 Never Anyone's Contemporary Osip Mandelstam is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the 20th century, not just in Russia, but in the world.
January 01, 2006 Spycraft Through Film It would be hard to overestimate the cultural impact of film on Russian culture. We plumb the depths of this phenomenon in this year’s Study Russia section.
January 01, 2006 Khrushchev's Secret Speech In an interview with the son of Anastas Mikoyan, one of the key players in the 20th Party Congress, we take a trip behind the curtain of Soviet Oz. Interview
January 01, 2006 Electoral Passions On Sunday, December 4, elections were held for the Moscow City Duma. The outcome was a foregone conclusion, but that did not rein in anyone’s political passions.
January 01, 2006 A Giant's Passing An elegy to one of Russia's greatest modern thinkers, Mikhail Gasparov, who passed away in late 2005.
January 01, 2006 The Trial of Yevno Azef Double agent or simply agent provocateur? Yevno Azef was one of the first instigators of terrorism and had a life as mysterious as it was despicable.
