Fall 2024 Navalny's Effect on the Language * Teaching Lit in the New (Old) Russia * Two Villages in the North * Divorced but Not Separate * A Gulag Town Remembers * A Tale of One Family Persecuted * Social Influencer Wives of Priests * Books We Liked
Summer 2024 Russia's Time of Troubles (440 years ago) * Re-emigration: Those Who Have Returned * Survival Russian in Wartime * Women Who Have Found Peace through Fishing * A Wealth of Cucumbers * Coming Together After a Disaster * Expatriate Tales * Places Named for the Fallen
Spring 2024 Alexei Navalny * Writing Letters to Political Prisoners * Siberians Protecting Prehistoric Art * Wives Trying to Bring their Men Home * Teachers Trying to Teach * The Orwellian Russian Language of War * Emigré Diaries
Winter 2024 Miltaristic camp for youth * Survival Russian * War on Environmentalists * The Legacy of Panel Buildings * Unlikely Pen Pals * Teaching for Russia * Socks for Troops * War Widows * New Books Worth Reading
Fall 2023 Men who fled the draft * New Russian language memes * How school is changing * A bike ride around the Soviet Union * A newspaper that struggles to remain free * An old man and his dog * Books we liked * Monuments being taken down
Summer 2023 More Last Words * Escaping from Russia to Avoid the Draft * Wartime Linguistic Touchpoints * Russia's War on LGBTQ+ * Talking with Russians on the Train * Life in a Remote Siberian City * The Ukrainian Student Who Became a Symbol of Emancipation for Her Generation * Books We Liked * Telling Statistics
Spring 2023 The Evolving Language of War * A Defiant Teacher * A Hopeful Priest * A Village Stand-Off * A Trip to Ukraine * Books We Liked * Last Words of Convicted Dissenters
Winter 2023 Protest by cake * Healing through fish * Propaganda in schools * Sisters in sorrow * Memes of war * Chekhov Becomes Chekhov * Books we love of late * Music as protest * Yashin's last words * Resistance is Fertile
Fall 2022 A visit to Odesa * The animals that would not be left behind * A village woman grapples with a history of war * The Russian economy * Pianist Marina Yudina * Grappling with one's Russian ancestry * The Dissilusioned * Tatar roots of Russian * Anti-war poems [SOLD OUT] We no longer sell back issues older than 1 year. You can order a digital subscription which allows you to read ALL issues dating back to July 1995. To order, click HERE.
Summer 2022 Russians informing on Russians * Amending the Law to Catch More Dissenters * Why Young Russians Stayed * Russia’s War is an Express Train to Hell * The Tankman and the Sailor * Artists Speaking Out * The Story of One Friendship * The Mightiness of the Russian Language * Chekhov’s Steppe (Bilingual) * Novels and Soviet Children
March/April 2022 Russia's Mother Theresa * An Unusual Street Musician * A Siberian Hermit * A Trip to the Edge of Russia * Peter the Great vs. Foppishness * How Not to Step in It * Finlandization of Russian * A Forgotten Food Classic * Animals in Opposition
January/February 2022 The Treacherous Beaty of Tuva * Birdmen of the Baltic * The General in the Village * Soviet History Through Insects * The First Russian Census * Peter I and Beards * Foreign Visitors * It's Not Good to be Cheap in Russian * French Borrowings in Russian * A Pie Recipe for Gluttons * Best Online Posts