A reminder, courtesy of Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova.
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Posted inFiction, Story
The Wolves
A forester’s daughter spends a night in a cabin in Soviet Russia, but it takes decades to discover how much danger she put her family in.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Russia Has Been Spying in Plain Sight in San Francisco
What was going on at Russia’s consulate in San Francisco?
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
The House Where Revolution Went to Die
The House on the Embankment housed hundreds of Soviet leaders. Eventually, it was the former house of hundreds of purge victims.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Russia’s House of Shadows
Moscow’s House on the Embankment, built to house the Soviet élite, became purge central. They were the new nobility, until suddenly they weren’t.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men
Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Canada has been secretly giving asylum to gay people in Chechnya fleeing persecution
There’s a new underground railroad to Canada. Through a safe house network, the Canadian government has been spiriting away gay Chechen men who face honor killings at their hands of their family. In this conservative Russian republic, the government not only looks away from these heinous crimes, it encourages them.
Posted inBlog Post
But His Emails: The Evolving Story of Donald Trump, Jr.’s Russia Meeting
A close reading of this whole Don Jr.-Russia situation.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Kingdom for a Horse: Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan
“[N]owhere in this region is the contrast between the contemporary and the ancient higher than in Kazakhstan. And nowhere is the interplay between the two more starkly embodied than in professional Kazakh kokpar.”
Posted inBlog Post
Will Jeff Sessions’ Testimony Delight Us Like James Comey’s Did?
Last time Sessions spoke in a public hearing, he lied. This time, the stakes are higher.