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weekend kitchen
Celebrate Spring With Kitchen Kebabs
No backyard, no grill - no problem. You can make shashlyk (aka kebabs) in your kitchen oven. Really.
weekend kitchen
Samovars, Tea and Something Sweet
Samovars have been essential to the tea drinking rituals in Russia for centuries.
6 Min read
literary advisory
Russia Creates Book Censorship Body – Vedomosti
A major publisher has already stopped selling books by U.S. authors James Baldwin and Michael Cunningham, as well as Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, for...
1 Min read
weekend kitchen
Carpe Diem: A Spicy Carp for Fish Friday
Spices are a way of adding flavor and nutrients to Lenten dishes.
5 Min read
Art Deco icon
The Year of Art Deco Artist Tamara de Lempicka
The painter known for her stylized portraits has a Broadway musical and a huge retrospective this year.
5 Min read
artistic crackdown
Russian Theater Director, Playwright's ‘Terrorism’ Case Transferred to Military Court
Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk face up to seven years in prison over their award-winning play about Russian women who fall in love with Islamist...
1 Min read
abrupt cancelation
Russian Ballet Show in South Korea Canceled Amid Ukraine Tensions
The April 16 show's cancelation comes after another planned performance in Seoul featuring Russia's top ballet dancer Svetlana Zakharova was axed in March...
2 Min read
jailed for a play
Russia Adds Theater Director Berkovich, Playwright Petriychuk to ‘Terrorists and Extremists’ List
The two women were arrested over their award-winning play about Russian women who fall in love with Islamist militants and plan to join them in Syria.
2 Min read
long read
‘I Will Never Trust These People’: Poems About Russia's Social Rift
Three young poets discuss how Russian society has been torn in two by the war Russia is waging in Ukraine.
18 Min read
weekend kitchen
Bake a Cake That is Out of This World
In honor of the first flight into space on April 12, 1961, here's an airy "Flight Cake" that is as delicious as it is light.
6 Min read
essential reading list
Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2024 Book Prize
The annual award shines a light on some of the best books about Russia and its neighbors.
3 Min read
suspended term
Russian Court Sentences Driver Who Struck Poet Lev Rubinstein
The motorist, whose name was not given, was found guilty of violating traffic rules that led to the death of a person through negligence.
1 Min read
weekend kitchen
Russian Cheese is More Than Cheese
Production of hard cheeses began late in Russia, but caught up to Europe quickly.
5 Min read
weekend kitchen
Russia's Culinary Grains of Truth
Millet, buckwheat and pearl barley make delicious porridges that are good for your health and wallet.
5 Min read
the word's worth
Always Say До Свидания, Never Прощайте
Twenty-two years is a long time to write a column
6 Min read
switching focus
Riga's Zuzeum Art Centre Celebrates Non-Conformist Art the Latvian Way
Most studies of the non-conformist art movements of the Soviet era have focused on Moscow artists.
5 Min read
eastern horizons
Russian Music Goes East
Russian classical music has found its an audience in Thailand.
3 Min read
art for the masses
Elena Skvortsova Hides Street Art in Plain Sight
Early in the morning a ceramics artist places tiny figures around the city.
3 Min read
long read
AUTO-GRAPH: Boris Akunin Asks Political Prisoners 13 Questions
The simple act of writing to Russian political prisoners and asking questions has created a book of our times.
8 Min read
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