Current Moscow Time: 13:33:2719 June 2013
The world’s biggest country, in a magazine. Since 1956.
Russian Life: May/June 2010
Cover: Andrei Gusachenko
7: Blaming the Messenger
In the aftermath of the March 2010 bombings on the Moscow metro, political leaders have taken to blaming the press.
Note Book
19: The Pride of Moscow
On May 15, 1935, Moscow's amazing metro system was opened. Since then, it has become the pride of the city and still the most reliable way to get around the capital.
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
21: Transforming Nature
A profile of Ivan Michurin (1855-1935) the leading Soviet horticulturalist and father of Soviet Darwinism.
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
24: From St. Petersburg to Moscow
In 1790, Alexander Radishchev "betrayed his class" with his scathing call for reform of Russia's social and political system in "From Moscow to St. Petersburg." But he was only doing what he was raised to do.
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Russian Calendar
27: Seeing Red
How to find the "red price" when haggling for goods and services.
:: Illustrations/Images by Victor Bogorad
Survival Russian
28: Defending Sevastopol
Where we visit this most Russian of cities on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. Vibrant, sun-drenched Sevastopol suffered under two horrific sieges in its recent history. Is a third underway?
:: Illustrations/Images by Andrei Gusachenko
Features
38: Hero of Two Nations
Joseph Beyrle is believed to be the only U.S. soldier who fought in both American and Soviet units during World War II. This is his remarkable story.
Features
41: The City of Chagall
Just over Russia’s border in Belarus is the remarkable city of Vitebsk, birthplace for a surprisingly influential artistic community that flourished just before and after the Revolution.
:: Illustrations/Images by Susanne Kries
Features
50: The Dialog Coach
How one expat got Americans, Brits, Russians, Germans and an admixture of other Europeans to all speak the same language in very different ways.
:: Illustrations/Images by Katya Korobkina
Features
52: The Meskhetians
Banished to Central Asia in 1944, chased from Uzbekistan in the 1990s, this persecuted minority has been scattered to the four winds, unable to return to their ancestral homeland.
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Features
60: Organic Containers
Where we consider the work of Alexei Venetsianov's "Girl with a Birch Bark Container" and how Russians used natural containers to preserve things like sour cream, which is this issue's recipe.
Cuisine
62: Ravens, Enemies and Crumbs
Reviews of: "The Raven's Gift" by Jon Turk, "Know Your Enemy," by David C. Engerman, "A Mountain of Crumbs," by Elena Gorokhovaya, "Russian San Francisco," by Lydia Zaverukha and Nina Bodgan, and "Peter the Great," by Derek Wilson.
Under Review
64: Moscow Calling
Author Peter Aleshkovsky recounts his personal impressions in the aftermath of the March 2010 Moscow subway bombing.
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
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