Here’s an amusing story out of the CIS today – it seems that Uzbek president Islam Karimov’s daughter, Lola, has made a big splash in the French tabloid world by paying Italian actre… more →
19th-Century Russian Culturewrote 1 month ago: Here’s an amusing story out of the CIS today – it seems that Uzbek president Islam Karim … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Poor David Miliband. The Britich foreign secretary can’t seem to do a whole lot right…Es … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I actually found this article, written by a Dutch journalist/ photographer quite at random, but it l … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The BBC has a fascinating audio slideshow up on the “Night Witches,” which was the Germa … more →
wrote 2 months ago: For anyone interested in the Russian language as well as linguistics in general, I can recommend a g … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Heroin abuse in russia, and as a result AIDS, have shown a closesly linked and rapid rise in Russia … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I thought I’d leave a link to an article who’s subject matter many of you might have hea … more →
wrote 2 months ago: here are the links for parts 2, 3 and 4 … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Pushkin’s “Цыганы”/”gypsies”, with the original Russian and a parallel … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Queen of Spades is on our reading list to be read in a couple of weeks. You can get it for free here … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Medvedev today released a statement outlining the governement’s plans for economic modernizati … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The European Council on Foreign Relations has recently published a collection of papers from leading … more →
wrote 7 months ago: In addition to the Eurovision, a few other interesting events are taking place in Russia this week. … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Robert Coalson at Radio Free Europe has recently published a fantastic article that explores the cur … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Well, we all know about me and my love of formula one… and now I’ve found a connection b … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I’m thinking of doing this for my Area Studies project next term on football in Russia, so I t … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Some of us are going to Odessa this summer, to improve our Russian and to enjoy the sun. Here’ … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Here is an excellent piece on the relevance and influence of Dostoevsky upon 29th century writers an … more →
wrote 11 months ago: I stumbled upon a great site today: a collection of free Russian audio books, including Goncharov … more →