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Russia’s Last Stalin Avenue Removes Dictator’s Bust Days After Installation A truck crane removed the sculpture from its pedestal days after it was erected. ognitv / Instagram The Moscow Times May 4, 2021 A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been dismantled days after local communists in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan erected it on Russia’s last remaining Stalin Avenue, media ..

How Russia Deals With the West After Navalny's Jailing "Forgive the United States, ignore France and punish Germany," is Russia's newfound motto as pressure on the country rises. By Vladimir Frolov The Moscow Times Feb. 10, 2021 Sergei Ilnitsky / EPA / TASS In 2004, when the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush was deciding how to respond to the situational alliance that France..

Russia Has One of the World’s Highest Excess Death Rates. Why Aren’t Russians Angrier? Surging coronavirus fatalities have played little or no role in a recent wave of protest. By Jake Cordell Moscow Times Feb. 19, 2021 Russia has lifted most of its coronavirus restrictions and opened vaccinations to the public. Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency Russians are showing few signs of anger over the g..

Only the Names Have Changed Russian propaganda lacks subtlety but finesse is no longer needed. By Andrei Sinitsyn Moscow Times Feb. 2, 2021 Valery Sharifulin / TASS Protestors gathered in dozens of cities across Russia again this past Sunday, though in smaller numbers than the previous weekend. The siloviki’s tactic of intimidating demonstrators and isolating their organizers has apparently work..

Nihilism for Oligarchs Sophie Pinkham New Left Review Sept./Oct., 2020 For a century, Russian and then Soviet culture electrified the world. From Tolstoy to Tarkovsky, by way of the Ballets Russes, the Constructivists, Eisenstein and Babel, Russia and its successor reworked and destabilized poetry, the realist novel and the short story, post-figurative art, orchestral music, dance, cinema, theat..

How U.S. Elections Could Impact EU-Russia Relations Even a partial restoration of transatlantic unity under a President Biden will be a blow to the Kremlin. By Andrei Kortunov The Moscow Times Oct. 31, 2020 Getty Images For several long years now, the European Union has been waging onerous trench warfare on two fronts. On the eastern front, Brussels has been in conflict with a malign Moscow sinc..

Bears, Ballet Dancers And Shaggy Cossacks: How Foreignes Depicted Russians In the XIX Century English Russia When people had no Internet and TV and their travel possibilities were limited, they judged about other peoples by books and pictures. Including caricatures. Satirical cartoons gave the idea to Europeans, Americans, Japanesewhat the Russians were and how they looked. People from Russia we..

Russian Girls Who Preffered Dark Skinned Foreigners to Compatriots English Russia October 20, 2020 More and more young and beautiful Russian women go against traditions and get married with foreigners. Natives to Africa become a frequent choice of Russian ladies. This Russian girl fell in love with an African guy and moved to his place in the USA. Now they have such a cute baby. This girl from S..

A Farewell to Trump? Russia’s Elite Braces for U.S. Elections Trump’s election made Russia a hostage of the battle raging in U.S. domestic politics. This time around, Biden’s victory wouldn’t be the worst thing for Russia. By Tatyana Stanovaya The Moscow Times Oct. 21, 2020 Patrick Semansky / AP / TASS The U.S. presidential election is one of the most important events in Russian domestic politic..

In Memoriam: Irina Slavina, Journalist and Champion of Truth By Sergey Parkhomenko The Moscow Times Oct. 14, 2020 Not only Irina’s death but Slavina's entire life was highly emblematic. Her story is the story of a provincial schoolteacher who wanted to become a journalist and became one, who wanted to be independent and retained her independence despite all the pressure. Irina Slavina Mikhail So..