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Russian Life: Nov/Dec 2008
7: Post-Soviet Dominoes?
After the Georgia War, Russia-watchers are wondering who will be next. All eyes have turned to Ukraine. The location of ethnic Russian populations in "near abroad" states is considered...
Note Book
19: Being Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev is seen differently in the West versus in Russia. In Russia, his prose is often clouded by his "social concern" and the drowning of a puppy.
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
21: New Year's: From Pagan to Present
A consideration of the roots of Russia's modern three week binge between Western Christmas and Russian Old New Year...
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
24: The Tehran Conference
In the dark and cold days of late November and early December 1943, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met in Tehran to begin dividing up the post-war world. Translator Valentin Berezhkov was caught in the middle.
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
26: Mauvaix phone
Cell phones have introduced some new and challenging lingo to the Russian lexicon.
:: Illustrations/Images by Victor Bogorad
Survival Russian
28: Ballet Bastion
St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet School is the world’s oldest and purest classical dance training ground.?It is also a secretive, conservative bastion, protecting classical traditions in a world of change.
Features
36: Into the Wild
The Pazhetnov family saves bears. They have been doing it for years, raising cubs and releasing them back into the wild. This fall, Editor Maria Antonova went along for the ride.
Features
38: Underground Novelist
Dmitry Glukhovsky is a rising young Russian writer, savvy to the ways of marketing and self-promotion. He also has a canny sense for tapping into an important aspect of the Russian psyche.
Features
43: Higher than the Angels
“Roofing”?in St. Petersburg has become a mass phenomenon. Join us on an exploration of the Northern Capital from above.
:: Translation by Anna Seluyanova
Features
52: Imagining the Enemy
Where we consider how Russians have been portrayed in American film over the past century – from Marlene Dietrich to Sean Connery. It turns out this may tell us more about America than about Russia.
Features
60: Proletarian Delights
"Raw beets and carrots," Ninotcha said in the eponymous film, when asked what she wants to eat. "This is a restaurant, not a pasture," the maitre de responds. What an appropriate segue into this issue's recipe for a tasty beet and carrot salad...
Cuisine
62: Capitals, Oligarchs and Cats
A review of a new book on the Silver Age, another on a Potato Oligarch, and two children's books, including one about a cat...
Under Review
64: Before the Fall
Natalia Strelkova was an American living in Moscow in the late 1960s... this is the story of her run-in with our magazine's predecessor, Soviet Life.
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