Russian Life Magazine

Explore past issues of the magazine. Issues published in the last year are generally available for sale as single issues.

Fall 2025

Fall 2025

End of an Era * Ethical Language * Hooked on Hockey * Village Children * A Crime in Kurgan * Language Careful What You Say * Dry Siberia * Two Books Worth Reading

Summer 2025

Summer 2025

Dacha Life * Recruiters Selling Out Fellow Russians * Blind & Deaf Parenting * Hostages to Tigers * Language Going Back to the CCCP * Granny Olya Decided to Die * A Last Word * Four Books Worth Reading

Spring 2025

Spring 2025

Putin on the Brain * Why Russians Like Traveling to North Korea * Siberian One-Student Schoolhouse * The Karelian Occupation * Power of the Press (Village Story) * Coping in Arkhangelsk * Books We Liked

Winter 2025

Winter 2025

Saving a Church and Memories * The Difficulty of Being a Trans Soldier in Russia * * Saving Dissenters from Psych Prisons * Saving the Pets from Warzones * The Perils of Dating Military Men * Books on Tolstoy * Word of the Year for 2024 * Books We Liked

Fall 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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