Berfrois

Russia

“English I know badly but colloquial is”

Oberiu Underground

Oberiu Underground

Martin Gilman has déjà vu all over again…

Martin Gilman has déjà vu all over again…

‘Hard Currency’ by Deborah Willis

Short story:

‘Hard Currency’ by Deborah Willis

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn employed modernist means to achieve anti-modernist ends…

Namely Oprichniki

Namely Oprichniki

Ballet Lives!

Ballet Lives!

‘The Road’ by Vasily Grossman

Book excerpt:

‘The Road’ by Vasily Grossman

‘pere… pere… ras… perer… razb… razl… grabl… braz… razb… gor… gor… grom… roiz…’

Sochi 2014 and the Circassian question

‘Speakers of Mandarin tend to see time both horizontally and vertically, with new events emerging from the ground like a spring of water, the past above and the future below’

How Russia smashed Napoleon

(Listen to Dominic Lieven discuss Russia against Napoleon)

Image gallery:

Wooden Churches in the Russian North

Preserving sovereignty in Ukrainian-Russian relations

‘They say the devil gets the best tunes. It seems he also gets the best novels.’

Nightclubbing with Omar bin Laden

Photography:

Neglinnaya River

Portal (The Flash Version)
Video game: Portal (The Flash Version)
‘In the Room of Glass Breasts’ by Brenda Hillman
Poem: ‘In the Room of Glass Breasts’ by Brenda Hillman
Green Manisons
Image gallery: Green Manisons
The Dogs
Slideshow: The Dogs
Stephen O’ Connor reads his story ‘Ziggurat’ from ‘Here Comes Another Lesson’
Podcast: Stephen O’ Connor reads his story ‘Ziggurat’ from ‘Here Comes Another Lesson’
The State of Wikipedia
Video: The State of Wikipedia