Russian Life Magazine

Explore past issues of the magazine. Issues published in the last year are generally available for sale as single issues.

Summer 2024

Summer 2024

Russia's Time of Troubles (440 years ago) * Re-emigration: Those Who Have Returned * Survival Russian in Wartime * Women Who Have Found Peace through Fishing * A Wealth of Cucumbers * Coming Together After a Disaster * Expatriate Tales * Places Named for the Fallen

Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Alexei Navalny * Writing Letters to Political Prisoners * Siberians Protecting Prehistoric Art * Wives Trying to Bring their Men Home * Teachers Trying to Teach * The Orwellian Russian Language of War * Emigré Diaries

Winter 2024

Winter 2024

Miltaristic camp for youth * Survival Russian * War on Environmentalists * The Legacy of Panel Buildings * Unlikely Pen Pals * Teaching for Russia * Socks for Troops * War Widows * New Books Worth Reading

Fall 2023

Fall 2023

Men who fled the draft * New Russian language memes * How school is changing * A bike ride around the Soviet Union * A newspaper that struggles to remain free * An old man and his dog * Books we liked * Monuments being taken down

Summer 2023

Summer 2023

More Last Words * Escaping from Russia to Avoid the Draft * Wartime Linguistic Touchpoints * Russia's War on LGBTQ+ * Talking with Russians on the Train * Life in a Remote Siberian City * The Ukrainian Student Who Became a Symbol of Emancipation for Her Generation * Books We Liked * Telling Statistics

Spring 2023

Spring 2023

The Evolving Language of War * A Defiant Teacher * A Hopeful Priest * A Village Stand-Off * A Trip to Ukraine * Books We Liked * Last Words of Convicted Dissenters

Winter 2023

Winter 2023

Protest by cake * Healing through fish * Propaganda in schools * Sisters in sorrow * Memes of war * Chekhov Becomes Chekhov * Books we love of late * Music as protest * Yashin's last words * Resistance is Fertile

Fall 2022

Fall 2022

A visit to Odesa * The animals that would not be left behind * A village woman grapples with a history of war * The Russian economy * Pianist Marina Yudina * Grappling with one's Russian ancestry * The Dissilusioned * Tatar roots of Russian * Anti-war poems

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Summer 2022

Summer 2022

Russians informing on Russians * Amending the Law to Catch More Dissenters * Why Young Russians Stayed * Russia’s War is an Express Train to Hell * The Tankman and the Sailor * Artists Speaking Out * The Story of One Friendship * The Mightiness of the Russian Language * Chekhov’s Steppe (Bilingual) * Novels and Soviet Children

March/April 2022

March/April 2022

Russia's Mother Theresa * An Unusual Street Musician * A Siberian Hermit * A Trip to the Edge of Russia * Peter the Great vs. Foppishness * How Not to Step in It * Finlandization of Russian * A Forgotten Food Classic * Animals in Opposition

January/February 2022

January/February 2022

The Treacherous Beaty of Tuva * Birdmen of the Baltic * The General in the Village * Soviet History Through Insects * The First Russian Census * Peter I and Beards * Foreign Visitors * It's Not Good to be Cheap in Russian * French Borrowings in Russian * A Pie Recipe for Gluttons * Best Online Posts

November/December 2021

November/December 2021

Dostoyevsky Turns 200: Is He Still Alive in Russia? * The Myth of Catherine the Great's Demise * Telling Fortunes in the Village * Dostoyevsky Sees a Corpse * King of the Cold * The Difference Between Now and NOW * Nobel Winner * Alexander's Decree * Elizabeth's Reign * Plov for the Holidays

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