November 01, 2007 When Things Fell Apart A chronicle of the days surrounding the 1917 revolution, in the words and thoughts of those who lived through it.
November 01, 2007 Mojitos in Moscow A look at some of Moscow's new upscale restaurants, where style and good food go hand in hand.
November 01, 2007 Soviet Images, Baikal and Chekhov Books on Soviet era photography, Lake Baikal, Private Life under Stalin, Chekhov and Literary St. Petersburg, as well as a DVD on Russian prisons.
November 01, 2007 A Church at the End of the Earth Antarctica's Church of the Holy Trinity is perhaps the world's most remote Russian Orthodox Church
November 01, 2007 The Difficulty of Being Oligarchic On the Uzbek-born oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who has made headlines of late from his acquisition of works of art and cartoons in the name of the Homeland.
October 20, 2007 Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis [This aired as a Commentary on Vermont Public Radio on October 19, 2007. Streaming audio can be found here.]Forty five years ago, I had barely just arrived. I was trying to put a little weight on, getting used to the sights and smells. Then suddenly this new world I had fallen into was teetering on the brink of nuclear annihilation. It's hard not to be affected by that sort of thing.On Russia File
October 16, 2007 Putin, Stalin and Teheran When news broke that Putin was traveling to Teheran despite death threats from terrorists, I was reminded that the last Russian leader who traveled to Teheran - Josef Stalin - also went there despite a death threat against him (and Roosevelt and Churchill, as the Big Three were traveling there in 1943 for the Teheran Conference). The plot against the Big Three was first uncovered by Soviet spy Nikolai Kuznetsov. Parachuted behind enemy lines at Rovno, Ukraine, Kuznetsov posed as Germa Russia File
October 09, 2007 Women's Day? A look at the origins of International Womens Day (March 8), how it was celebrated in Soviet times, and how it is changing today. Holidays Russia File
October 07, 2007 Avast, there be pirates! To quote Dave Barry, I am not making this up... Visit this top level site for a very proud and propagandistic video of Putin accepting the nomination to head the Unified Russia party in the upcoming Duma elections. Very nicely and professionally done, even if a bit, well, over the top. But the fun part is this. Listen very closely to the soundtrack (much easier if you don't understand Russian). The music which is playing just a Russia File
