Russian Audiences Held ‘Hostage’ By Mock Ukrainian Soldiers in Pro-War Play
Theatergoers south of Moscow were held “hostage” and shot at by actors playing Ukrainian soldiers during an immersive play that glorifies Russia’s invasion of its …
Category: Arts and Life
The Curious Russian History of Lobsters and Crab Sticks
Lobsters, crabs, crawfish… what could be further from Russian cuisine? Actually, that’s not right, if only because all kinds of European seafood have been part …
Who Doesn’t Love Cabbage Rolls?
A joke in Russian goes like this: some people eat meat, some people eat cabbage, but on average people eat cabbage rolls. Today everyone in …
Adam Curtis Delivers Harrowing But Essential View of Post-Soviet Russia in New Series
Nobody can accuse Adam Curtis of lacking ambition in his new BBC series “Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone.” In a harrowing seven-hour viewing experience made up entirely …
Chocolate Potatoes for Dessert
One of the rites of culinary passage for foreigners in Russia is the first time they are introduced to a “chocolate potato,” one of the …
The Paradox of Pelmeni
Pelmeni are a paradoxical dish. Although Siberian pelmeni most likely came from China originally — from famous New Year’s dumplings called jiaozi — their name …
In Latvia, Putin’s War on Russian Media Plays Out on the Big Screen
Viewers in Latvia’s funding of Riga came out last week to see a testing of” F@ck This Job,”a docudrama regarding independent Russian broadcaster TV Rain …
Kurnik: A Wedding Dish for One Hen of a Bride
Today if you claimed a lady appeared like chicken, she ‘d be deeply upset. In the olden days in main Russia, a chicken was good …
Russians in Venice: Not Invited, Not Shunned
The Venice Film Festival has constantly favored Russian movie theater. The movies of directors Andrei Konchalovsky and also Alexander Sokurov were given awards here, and …
Top Hermitage Curator Quits Museum as well as Russia
On Sunday Dmitry Ozerkov, a top manager at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, revealed in an Instagram post that he had actually resigned from …
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
Mary E. Sarotte’s book”Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate “is the history of arrangements on arms control, security concerns …
Forshmak: A Russian-Jewish-German Dish
Today if you asked Russians, the majority of them would inform you that forshmak is part of Jewish food. 150 years ago it was definitely …