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"Sin" reveals Russia's ambivalent patriotism

May 23, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Zakhar Prilepin’s obsession with exploring the nature of Russian identity roots the book in a particular literary tradition. But his dark vision of Russian life in the novel “Sin” reveals that life can, and perhaps will, get better

Moscow spent a “Night at the Museum”

May 21, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
During the annual Night at the Museum event, locals and tourists alike had the opportunity to attend a number of exhibitions and performances in some of the Russian capital’s most beautiful and interesting spaces

Russia’s émigrés write east and west

May 18, 2012 Xenia Grubstein
New Yorkers have a one-of-a-kind chance to get acquainted with contemporary Russian literature when Read Russia comes to New York

Marat Guelman: “Things can work differently”

May 17, 2012 Masha Charnay
A man of many skills and deeds, Marat Guelman is Russia’s most well-known gallery owner, curator, political consultant and an inveterate provocateur. RBTH spoke to the man who calls himself a dissident

Why are Tolstoy’s novels popular in the West?

May 15, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
“Anna Karenina” seems to have been written according to a classic movie scenario. No wonder western directors, including Joe Wright of Great Britain, keep screening Tolstoy’s novel

Cultural exchange builds relationships

May 15, 2012 Kim Palchikoff
In April, I interviewed former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones, who is now senior vice president of communications and government relations for Harrahs Hotels & Casinos, which has its own circus show on the Strip. Absinthe, a tent circus show

Folk band breathes new life into peasant ritual music

May 14, 2012 Yelena Potapova
Six young Muscovites have teamed up to form White Light, a folk band that is attempting to resurrect a musical tradition that is now nearly extinct – the ritual chants of Russian peasants

Describing schizophrenia from within

May 12, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
Anna Starobinets, an acclaimed author of frightening short stories and apocalyptic novels, writes in a style that has been compared to that of Edgar Allan Poe and George Orwell

Russian art breaks more records

May 12, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
In a quick, anonymous phone bid, an Aivazovsky brings in an unprecedented $5.2 million at auction. RBTH views the Russian art explosion up close

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?

A visceral voice, writing for those who can’t

May 10, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
German Sadulaev’s flawed but important book “I am a Chechen” tells us truths we need to hear

The Bolshoi Theater in WWII: The show must go on

May 8, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Although Moscow was bombed during the World War II, it didn’t prevent the Bolshoi Theater’s actors and actresses from performing on the stage

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

Russian writers find themselves at home in Dystopia

May 3, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Contemporary Russian writers explore dystopias in wildly inventive ways. But what are they really getting at?

The Buranovo Grannies: Life after 70

May 1, 2012 Svetlana Smetanina
Why is Russia’s Eurovision group so popular? Could it be because they show an aging world that all is not lost with time?

Russian films look abroad

April 30, 2012 Paul Duvernet
The Russian cinema industry is seeking a strategy for exporting its films more effectively. Some of the solutions proposed by Fond Kino (‘the Cinema Fund’) involve reducing prices, improving training and stimulating co-productions

Post-modern espionage

April 26, 2012 Daria Alyukova
The new movie "Spy" is being screened in London as part of the SLOVO Russian Literature Festival

Russian writing goes down a storm in London

April 26, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
The London Book Fair 2012 has revealed how western perceptions of Russian literature are being transformed with the exciting range of new contemporary works that are now reaching international audiences

Off the beaten track: hidden Russia revealed

April 25, 2012 Roger Williams
A major investment program is helping to transform Russia’s more remote regions into world-class tourist destinations

Russia-UK: Why culture vultures can soar above political problems

April 24, 2012 Alexander Yakovenko
The new office of the Russian Federal Agency for Humanitarian Co-operation, opened in London, is expected to promote the Russian culture in Great Britain and strengthen Russian-British ties
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