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Stalin’s Architect: The Remarkable Life of Boris Iofan Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power. By: Deyan Sudjic The MIT Press Aug. 4, 2022 “Poetry might survive in a totalitarian age, and certain arts or half-arts, such as architecture, might even find tyranny beneficial, but the prose writer would have no choice between silence or deat..

Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky I understand why people hate all things Russian right now. But our literature did not put Putin in power or cause this war. By Mikhail Shishkin The Atlantic, July 24, 2022 Getty; The Atlantic Culture, too, is a casualty of war. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some Ukrainian writers called for a boycott of Russian music, films, and books. Others have all but accused Ru..

opinion Beat Your Enemy, But Read His Poets Read the poets carefully; they are mostly on your side. By Alexander Etkind The Moscow Times Updated: July 15, 2022 Portrait of Alexander Pushkin by Orest Kiprensky. Google Art Project Putin’s war in Ukraine is a horrifying imperialist invasion. It has changed the big picture of Russian, Ukrainian, and European history in the ways that we will be strug..

Is Vladimir Putin dead? (글 제목이 좀 무례하다. 그만큼 국제사회에서 미움을 받고 있다는 얘기이기도 하다.) What the persistent rumours about the Russian president’s health do and do not tell us about the country’s future. By Katie Stallard New Statesman, 2 June 2022updated 21 Jul 2022 8:15am portrait vladimir putin - A cross depicting Putin's tomb at a checkpoint outside Dnipro, Ukraine. Photo by Jorge Silva / Reuters Vladimir Pu..

Will Russia freeze Europe? Putin may be planning to turn the gas off for good by Gabriel Gavin The UnHerd, July 13, 2022 Wonder what his energy bills are like. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images) Europe is bracing for record temperatures this week, but while many struggle in the sweltering weather, in just a few months time, dozens of Western nations could find themselves sliding towards a cata..

A Post-War Stand-Off Between Russia and the West Is Inevitable There will be no Europe whole, free, and at peace. by Michael Kimmage The National Interest, July 5, 2022 THE WAR in Ukraine is likely to last for years and to end in a Russian defeat of one kind or another. The essence of this war, apart from the enormous suffering it has caused, is that Vladimir Putin has made an epic strategic blu..

Detail of Eternal Russia (1988) by Ilya Glazunov. Photo courtesy Wikimedia/Mos.ru The discontent of Russia Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away by Joy Neumeyer + BIO Aeon, July 2022 Joy Neumeyer is a writer and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. A former reporter in Moscow, her writing has appeared in publications ..

G7 정상들 푸틴 조롱 “웃통 벗고 찍을까요?” “우리도 말 탑시다 ” 장민석 기자 조선읾보, 2022.06.27 12:24 알프스를 배경으로 한 G7 정상회의 단체 사진. 왼쪽부터 마리오 드라기 이탈리아 총리, 우르줄라 폰데어라이엔 EU 집행위원장, 조 바이든 미국 대통령, 올라프 숄츠 독일 총리, 보리스 존슨 영국 총리, 쥐스탱 트뤼도 캐나다 총리, 기시다 후미오 일본 총리, 에마뉘엘 마크롱 프랑스 대통령, 샤를 미셸 EU 정상회의 상임의장. /로이터 연합뉴스 26일(현지 시각) 독일 바이에른주 엘마우성에서 열린 G7(주요 7개국) 정상 회의. 언론에 공개될 단체 사진 복장을 놓고 가벼운 얘기를 주고 받던 자리에서 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령에 대한 이야기가 나왔다. 미국 워싱턴포스트(WP) 등에 ..

Life After Putin: What Happens if the President Dies? In Russia today, "when" is more important than "if." By Tatiana Stanovaya The Moscow Times June 22, 2022 Andrey Lyubimov / Moskva News Agency For years, observers have been speculating over which fatal illness afflicts Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in recent months this discussion has snowballed. Pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer, blo..

Putin’s Health: Pivotal Yet Shrouded in Uncertainty By Stuart Williams for AFP The Moscow Times, June 17, 2022 Russia's President Vladimir Putin spending his time off work in the Siberian taiga with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in October 2019. Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS Baths in blood extracted from the antlers of Siberian deer. Excrements ..