July 01, 2002 Staring at the World With an Ironic Gaze On August 20, Vassily Aksyonov turns 70. The son of party leader Pavel Aksyonov and author Yevgeniya Ginsburg (Into the Whirlwind), Aksyonov spent part of his childhood in Magadan, where his mother was incarcerated.
July 01, 2002 The Shape of Things Already Come Oh, for the days when Moscow was a quiet, Imperial City. Today it is overrun with net cafes and foreign cars. It seems there is no turning back.
July 01, 2002 A Remarkable Dissident July 1 would have been the 95th birthday of writer and poet Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982). Shalamov’s talented and revealing prose only saw the light of day six years after his death, when glasnost led to the publication of previously suppressed writers.
July 01, 2002 So, Honey, Where Was That Cake? A recipe oozing with honey -- honey cake has caught more than its share of unwary men.
July 01, 2002 Keeping a Sweet Tradition Alive The ancient art of wild beekeeping is alive and well in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan. Hardy bees and patient beekeepers team up to produce what some feel is the best honeyh in Europe.
July 01, 2002 Russian Calendar This month's section features longer profiles of David Burlyuk, Oleg Protopopov, Sergei Lemeshev, Sofia Rotaru, Vassily Aksyonov and Varlam Shalamov.
May 01, 2002 Russian Serfs and Nikolai Gogol The serf system in early 19th century Russia and writer, Nikolai Gogol. History Literature Russia File
May 01, 2002 Walking a Verst in Russia's Lapti The influence of lapti in Russian speech, and a bit about lyko too.
May 01, 2002 100 Young Russians to Watch With this, our ninth installment, we bring to a close our year-and-a-half-long series “One Hundred Young Russians To Watch in the New Century.”
