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Russian pop-rock is out to conquer Europe

March 14, 2012 Veronika Dorman
Although she has dominated the Russian pop-rock scene from the outset, Zemfira, referred to by music critics as ‘Kurt Cobain in a skirt’, is currently exporting her cracked voice and dark lyrics to Europe, and is performing in London on 15 March

A woman's place is in the Duma?

September 15, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Female politicians with any power are few and far between in Russia, but a new NGO hopes to change that

“I write now with more of an edge“

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A rare interview with Oleg Kashin

For Russia’s journalists, often in peril, small ripples of change

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Freedom of the press in Russia: Is the situation improving?

Russian Film “Chapiteau Show” scores as festival darling

July 18, 2011 Veronika Dorman
The Moscow film festival closed earlier this month after showcasing some strong international films and honoring mature actresses Geraldine Chaplin and Helen Mirren

Rites of passage: California twins return to Russia where they were born

July 15, 2011 Veronika Dorman
On their first return since they left Moscow's Orphanage No. 13 sixteen years ago, Jennifer and Jessica Allen exclaim, in unison: “It’s so awesome... that we’re from here!”

Building a market for creativity

May 16, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Moscow's creative industries have plenty of space, but now have to find a place for themselves in Russia's economy

The invisible menace goes to ground

April 19, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident, life goes on around Ukraine’s Chernobyl site

On the track of the true sound of Mosfilm

June 29, 2010 Veronika Dorman