November 01, 2008 Mauvaix phone Cell phones have introduced some new and challenging lingo to the Russian lexicon.
November 01, 2008 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.
November 01, 2008 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...
November 01, 2008 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...
November 01, 2008 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.
November 01, 2008 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...
November 01, 2008 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.
November 01, 2008 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...
