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... the 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with "social parasitism." He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in the United States where he taught at various universities. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature for an "all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." In an interview he was asked: "You are an American citizen who is receiving a prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American...
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Common Economic Space Enters Into Force
11 January 2012
The Associated Press
.... The document, which dates back to 2000, argues for promoting policies that "best serve the interests of Russia as a great power and as one of the most influential centers in the modern world." The theme was recently reprised in campaign literature for Putin's United Russia party, which claimed that the "new union will allow our country to become another pole of influence in the modern, multipolar world." Trenin said so far that fears of renewed Kremlin domination were ungrounded...
Protests' Ogre Churov Insists He Is Apolitical
27 January 2012
By Alexander Bratersky / The Moscow Times
... journalist during Soviet times fondly. A physicist by background, Churov wrote articles on space and science when he was younger under a pen name. He said he got involved in journalism through his mother who was an editor at several prominent Soviet literature magazines. "My scholarship was 40 rubles and I earned 80 rubles from writing. Only Pravda paid more," Churov said, referring to the old Communist Party mouthpiece. Reporters cracked smiles when Churov said one student newspaper he...
Theater Plus: Melnikov Brings Chekhov to Life on Screen
30 January 2012
... March and the film will begin a run at least in St. Petersburg theaters that same month. According to producer Olga Agrafenina, several foreign film festivals have expressed interest in the film. If you're at all interested in Anton Chekhov, Russian literature or Russian culture in general, my biased opinion is that you won't want to miss "The Admirer" when it comes, as they say, to a theater near you.
St. Petersburg: The Tourist Capital
15 January 2012
.... Covered in graffiti tributes and open weekdays and weekends, it also doubles as a club. The small but intimate Vladimir Nabokov Museum (47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa) occupies one floor of the mansion in which the master of Russian and later English literature spent his pre-revolutionary childhood. A must-see for any fan of Nabokov, the museum is covered with the sketches of butterflies he made for his wife and offers a very good video documentary, though largely in Russian. Where to eat For MT...
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