Russia News News Russia » Culture: Should we stop platforming Russian culture?
It's been more than three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. The United States and the European Union rallied behind the country providing financial and military support, while a cultural boycott saw ...
News Russia » Culture: Why I Canceled Russian Culture for Myself
A Russified education did not forbid access to my own culture, it just quietly weakened my instinct to reach for it.
News Russia » Culture: Russia has looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects in the war. Finding them is a challenge
KYIV, Ukraine — When Alina Dotsenko returned to her museum after Ukrainian forces retook the southern city of Kherson from Russian forces in late 2022, she found thousands of artworks had vanished. “I ...
News Russia » Culture: Russia’s Power Is Not Weapons, It’s Culture – OpEd
Observers say that what drives President Vladimir Putin is to make Russia respected. But perhaps Putin underestimates how much power Russia already has. He has overlooked which trumpets to blow. It is ...
News Russia » Culture: Why Russia’s Outdated Military Culture Is Losing the Ukraine War
Almost half a decade of grinding warfare has not brought much change in Russian tactics. It is well known that Russia’s military culture is vile, brutal, and lethal. Russian military commanders in the ...
News Russia » Culture: Ambiguous Inclusion: Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border
Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border, Lauren Woodard, an anthropologist, investigates the effects of a repatriation program in Primorye, a region bordering China and North Korea, where the ...
News Russia » Culture: In Evan Gershkovich’s new memoir, prison is a microcosm of Russia
A son of Russian-speaking Soviet immigrants, Mr Gershkovich is now in the first of those three carceral categories. He spent 16 months in Russian custody, an ordeal he chronicles in “This Cursed ...
News Russia » Culture: The trouble with loving Russia: Evan Gershkovich's memoir seeks sentimentality in a lost country
By the end of his pre-trial detention at Moscow's infamous Lefortovo Prison, American journalist Evan Gershkovich had developed a curious rapport with the FSB investigator tasked with proving he was ...
News Russia » Culture: Belarus’s war on culture
Honar is a shop “for brave people,” says Adelia, “because wearing clothes with national motifs in Belarus requires courage.” (Speaking to journalists does too: Adelia is a pseudonym.) Massive protests ...