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Actor Yefremov to Join Pro-Kremlin Director Mikhalkov’s Theater Troupe After Parole Release

Mikhail Yefremov was convicted in 2020 of killing a delivery driver in a head-on collision while driving intoxicated in central Moscow.

Benjamin Nathans' 'To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause' Awarded 2025 Pushkin House Book Prize

"Patriot" by Alexei Navalny and translated by Arch Tait and Stephen Dalziel was given a special recognition award.
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By Employing Putin’s Alleged Daughter, Paris Gallery Sparks Debate Over Collective Responsibility

The news raises questions over safety risks for Russian artists in exile and ethical risks for Ukrainian artists. But the gallery defends its choice.
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Documentary 'The Eukrainian' Follows Kyiv's Quest for EU Membership

The film focuses on Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna as she leads Kyiv’s efforts to cement itself as part of modern Europe.
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‘Boris Godunov’: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Titanic Indictment of the Russia He Loves

The exiled director reinterprets a 19th-century opera to craft a towering allegory of modern Russia for the ages.
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Sergey Radchenko's 'To Run the World' Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize 2025

The final nominee for the Pushkin House Book Prize is a deep analysis of Soviet and Russian foreign policies.
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Donald Rayfield's 'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe' Shortlisted for 2025 Pushkin House Book Prize

A much-needed history of the Crimean Tatars and their Khanate.
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Russian Lawmakers Declare War on Shrek

“If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their children,” a senior lawmaker said at a roundtable that criticized the influence of Western culture on...
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In 'Our Dear Friends in Moscow' Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov Track Russia's Broken Generation

How could intelligent and knowledgeable journalists succumb to propaganda and lies?
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Kirill Serebrennikov's 'The Disappearance of Josef Mengele' at Cannes Film Festival

"The Disappearance," Serebrennikov's first film in German, follows the war criminal's life of impunity.
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Author Viv Groskop Remembers 'One Ukrainian Summer'

Writer, comedian, TV and radio announcer Viv Groskop talks about an unforgettable summer in the 1990s when everything in the world was different.
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Legendary Russian Choreographer Yury Grigorovich Dies at 98

The towering figure of Russian ballet led Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater as chief choreographer for three decades.
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Pro-War Pop Icon Shaman to Represent Russia at Upcoming Eurovision Copycat

Organizers of Intervision 2025 said Shaman’s popularity in Russia was the main reason he was selected to represent the country at its inaugural competition...
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Benjamin Nathans' 'To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause' Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize 2025

A fascinating, sensitive and ultimately instructive history of the individuals that made up the "dissident movement" in the Soviet Union.
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Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’ Brings Stalin-Era Terror to Cannes Film Festival

Premiering May 15 at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Prosecutors” is a haunting meditation on the corrosive power of bureaucracy...
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Of Forks on the Dinner Table and Forks in the Road

In our last column for The Moscow Times we go back in time to make little pies that you can eat with your fingers - which is good since forks were rare...
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Alexei Navalny’s Posthumous Memoir ‘Patriot’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize 2025

Part-memoir, part-prison diary, and part political manifesto, Alexei Navalny's last word is a captivating read.
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When Kitchens Became Factories in the Soviet Union

Soviet authorities had the idea of building enormous factory kitchens that would provide hot mid-day meals to the masses. How did it go? Not very well...
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Remembering the War: Grigory Baklanov and a 'Life, Twice Given'

A story of the war that ended 80 years ago by someone who fought and by a miracle came home.
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