Crime in Progress review – the secret history of the Trump-Russia investigation
In January 2017 a meeting took place in a deserted building in Foggy Bottom. It …
Tag: Culture
Werner Herzog pulls his your punches
The last time Gorbachev appeared on screen is at the recent terrifying TV drama Chernobyl , played …
Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean review, true travels to the end of Europe
In 1989, MacLean recorded his journey from Berlin to Moscow across what was for many …
The World According to Putin review
This is the era of the dead cat. It’s Boris Johnson’s fault. Back in 2013, …
Nanna Heitmann’s best photograph: a wild horse race in sweltering Siberia
I shot this last year at the annual horse race in the Tuvan Republic, in …
Life in the ‘hairy underground’: the lost history of Soviet hippies
In 1968, Aksel Lampmann was a teenager growing up in Soviet Estonia. That summer, he …
Russians spend more a bitter price to produce survival
In the shabby, boring, numbed city of Leningrad belonging to the autumn of 1945 individuals …
Strange tale of the oligarch who became Putin’s nemesis
Alex Gibney’s absorbing new film shows his remarkable metamorphosis throughout this. While all the other …
Elaine Feinstein obituary
In 1961 she published the first translations into English of works by Maria Tsvetayeva, and went …
For authoritarians, stifling the arts is of a piece with demonising minorities
Crivella, a former bishop, belongs to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, which …
Russian court frees actor Pavel Ustinov after public backlash
Pavel Ustinov, who was detained at last month’s anti-government protests, still faces three and a …
Russian comics get sales boost after culture minister calls them ‘pathetic’
The minister, Vladimir Medinsky, told an audience at the Moscow international book fair that comics …