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Artistry Through Turbulence
Posted on September 14, 2011 | No CommentsMore than 20 years after an epic struggle, he finds harmony in the same place: his paintings. Aslangery Uyanayev was part of a group of artists who squatted at Pushkinskaya... -
Protesters Meet Police in Triumph Square
Posted on August 6, 2011 | No Commentsin collaboration with Chris Cloonan “I protest against the autocracy regime of Putin, against the police state,” said Eugenia Chasovnikova, a 30-year-old school teacher. Chasovnikova was one of about 100... -
Young Musician Bucks Russian Musical Culture
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe 15-year-old’s frustrating memories of German class do not stem from grammar drills or vocabulary words, but from balloons. The balloons were from all the celebrations that Olja Voronenko’s school... -
Rebel Artist Recalls Historic Fight
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsPhotos by Hallie Golden “We moved into this house with the world collapsing around us,” Aslangery Uyanayev, an impressionist artist, said of a once-abandoned building in St. Petersburg, Russia. The... -
Lawyer’s Death Sheds Light On Corruption
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsPhotos by Hallie Golden Sergei Magnitski broke Russia’s most important unwritten law and paid for it with his life. This attorney for a Moscow law firm exposed the largest tax... -
Americans Overweight And Ignorant? Not Always
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsSelf-centered, antisocial and willfully ignorant about world affairs? That is how many Russians, interviewed over the past week, described ordinary Americans. They also said they thought Americans were superficial and... -
Gas Attacks? Poison? Unlikely in Modern Russia
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe Cold War may have ended more than 20 years ago but its memory lingers on among many Americans, coloring how they view Russia in the 21st Century. -
Russians Embrace Calvin Klein, Timberland And the Rest
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsDressed in a Burberry shirt and Calvin Klein jeans, Ivan Mikheenko stood in a souvenir shop in central St. Petersburg listening to music on his Apple iTouch as he waited... -
Film “Inside Job” Ignites Debate About Russian Corruption
Posted on July 26, 2011 | No CommentsA recent showing of the Oscar-winning documentary “Inside Job” at a St. Petersburg University international summer program sparked an intense debate between the Russians in attendance about their own system... -
The Dangers of Russian Journalism: A Q & A with a Russian Reporter
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No CommentsAna Keampets is a St. Petersburg-based banking reporter for Kommersant, an independent national business newspaper read by the elite. It’s the Wall Street Journal of Russia, although with a much...