March 01, 2004 Rolling into Spring In March, Russian citizens will renew the mandate of President Vladimir Putin for another four years. At least that is what the polls tell us to expect.
September 01, 2003 Heirs to Gagarin Russia can truly be proud of the wilderness areas it has preserved. But cordoning off these areas is one thing. Securing them for the future is another thing altogether.
July 01, 2003 Hide & Seek As this issue was going to press, our American media was focused on the so far fruitless effort to find Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Iraq.
May 01, 2003 Piter Then and Now In my childhood, I spent every school vacation in Leningrad. Our closest family members lived there.
March 01, 2003 What Goes Around... For forty years, in the era of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, Russia did all it could to force a wedge between the US and its European allies. Now Putin wants to do everything he can to keep the alliance together.
January 01, 2003 Russia after Nord-Ost How does a bimonthly magazine on Russian culture, history and society respond to a gruesome act of terrorism?
November 01, 2002 A Chapter Closes Mikhail Ivanov, our editor for the past seven years, has decided to move on to new challenges and opportunities.
September 01, 2002 The Putin Issue It is a bit hard for political cynics like us to devote so much space in our “magazine of culture, history, people and places” to a single politician.
March 01, 2002 Rubbing Elbows With the Stars? Some Russian Life readers have suggested that we need to avoid the “glitterati” in our series on “100 Young Russians To Watch” – we should write less about ballerinas and cinema stars. I partially agree.
January 01, 2002 Looking Back The US-Russian (nee Soviet) Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty has been cast onto the dustheap of history with scarcely a whimper from the Russian side. As with many things, what seemed unlikely six months ago has all of a sudden become unavoidable.