November 28, 2019 Dumbledovich and the Chamber of Bovine Distractions By Tiffany Zhu Russia is a little out of touch with reality this week: gates lead to nowhere, cows get VR, and bankers think the economy is like Harry Potter. Agriculture Economy Regions The Weekly Russia File
September 06, 2019 Planting the Fourteenth Century By Maria Antonova Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380. Agriculture Environment History War
September 01, 2019 Into the Breach By Yulia Skopich Vladimir left the big city to set up a farm in rural Lipetsk Oblast. And he doesn’t regret it one bit. Agriculture Business Regions
July 01, 2019 Hogweed instead of Birches By Natalya Beskhlebnaya The Caucasus had a fast-growing plant that the Soviets wanted to plant up north to use for animal feed. What could possibly go wrong? Agriculture Environment Geography
March 01, 2019 A Soviet Fox for Post-Soviet Man By Natalya Beskhlebnaya An uptick in fox domestications leads us to consider a landmark experiment in Novosibirsk that upended assumptions about evolution. Agriculture Science Social Issues
January 30, 2019 The American housewives who sought freedom in Soviet Russia By Julia Mickenberg In the summer of 1922, Ruth Epperson Kennell, a children’s librarian, left New York City for the far reaches of Siberia. She travelled with her husband Frank and 132 other ‘pioneers' who were eager to establishing industrial and agricultural communes to aid the ‘new Russia’. Agriculture History Women
November 01, 2014 The Great Wrong Turn By Tamara Eidelman A look back at the proclamation of Collectivization, in November 1929, leading essentially to the reinstatement of serfdom in Russia. Agriculture
July 01, 2013 The Russian Bees Will Save Us By Paul E. Richardson American bees are dying from mysterious causes, putting our agriculture at risk for lack of pollinators. Russian bees might be part of a solution. Agriculture
