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Nurturing Russia's writers

May 11, 2012 Nora FitzGerald
Overlook Press, whose emblem is a winged elephant, is a safe place for risky books. And what could be riskier than Russian contemporary fiction?

Russian actress wins kudos in D.C.

May 7, 2012 Nora FitzGerald
Artistic directors from Georgia and actors from Russia create original theater in a family atmosphere in the most unlikely city

Artist Yevgeniy Fiks examines historical ironies in his DC show

March 22, 2012 Nora FitzGerald
Yevgeniy Fiks, a conceptual painter influenced by the creators of the vibrant, political movement called Sots Art, examines historical ironies and absurdities that shed new light on the inconstancy of the Cold War

Fashion Minister spreads the word

February 28, 2012 Tatiana Lykova, Nora FitzGerald
Alexandre Vassiliev, Russia’s well-known costume designer, who collected 10,000 dresses and costumes, hopes to bring his Ballet Russe collection to the Kennedy Center

From despair to mercy

February 13, 2012 Elena Bobrova, Nora FitzGerald
"Siberia Monamour," a film by emerging director Slava Ross, portrays life on the taiga in all its brutality and compassion

Russia’s sacred music reaches the Potomac

December 23, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
The Ural Philharmonic performs with the Washington Choral Arts Society in a program that repeats on Christmas Eve

American playwright uses Russian language to say what can't be said

December 19, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
In “Close Up Space,” the Russian language expresses a gulf of grief between father and daughter

The Irony of Fate:a great decade for film

December 12, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Nora FitzGerald outlines the modern trends of the Russian movie-industry for the last decade

The short road from UN resolutions to regime change

December 8, 2011 Nora FitzGerald, Jean-Louis Turlin
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin explains Moscow’s view on the situation in the Middle East

The landscape of memory

December 1, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Russian artist Oleg Vassiliev gives memory a voice. Often he begins with a personal memory of his family, a home, a road, even a field. Then he recreates the vision, one that echoes all the more as he experiments with light and space

Russian Film Week held in New York

November 7, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Highly-acclaimed and emerging Russian film-makers strut their stuff in the city of New York

Walking Phoebe’s walk

October 26, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Moscow is, feet-down, Phoebe Taplin’s favorite city to walk in

Phoebe Taplin discovered a sublime Moscow by foot

October 26, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
She has walked more than 5,000 miles in her explorations

Independent directors try filming on donation

October 12, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Interview with Yan Vizinberg: The producers hope to raise enough money via Kickstarter, an Internet fundraising platform, to take it into distribution

A Russian girl’s road trip through hell

October 12, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
One director explores a painful and often overlooked reality

The man who flew into space from his apartment

September 30, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov finally land in D.C.

"Exchanges are vital to help Russia develop"

August 25, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Librarian of Congress James Billington remembers the 1991 putsch and discusses the importance of a "cultural reset" between the United States and Russia

The Night Witches who ruled the skies

June 22, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
One of the little-known stories of World War II is that of the Soviet Union's young female pilots

My Maya: a life’s dance,
 a life’s music

June 8, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
Maya Plisetskaya, 85, will be on hand, with husband and composer Rodion Shchedrin, to open the Lincoln Center Festival next month

Unsung icons of design

May 25, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
“The book started out as an antidote to nostalgia”
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