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Theater In The Bomb Shelter: How The Arts Are Surviving Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

Theater In The Bomb Shelter: How The Arts Are Surviving Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

Radio Free Europe — In Mykolayiv, Lviv, Kyiv, and other cities, Ukrainian theater companies are adapting to the strained circumstances of war -- and putting on productions that capture the everyday and sometimes unglamorous heroism that defense entails.

Trump, Russia and the new geopolitics of the Baltics

Trump, Russia and the new geopolitics of the Baltics

New Eastern Europe — While there was an initial wave of reports outlining fears for the future of the Baltic states following Trump's victory, the internal atmosphere appears ambivalent: a quiet confidence in the continuity of US support and an unsettled undertow of concern.

Estonian Foreign Minister Cautious but Calm on Relations With Russia

Estonian Foreign Minister Cautious but Calm on Relations With Russia

themoscowtimes.com — As the Baltic states fret about perceived threats from neighboring Russia and their sizable ethnic Russian populations, Estonia's recently appointed foreign minister, Marina Kaljurand, is better placed than most to understand and address the issue: She is half Russian and half Latvian.

St. Petersburg Exhibition Censored and Closed

St. Petersburg Exhibition Censored and Closed

themoscowtimes.com — A Belgian and a German artist have had an exhibition of their graphic novel shuttered in St. Petersburg's Nabokov Museum. The artists, Dominique Goblet and Kai Pfeiffer, were displaying their work as part of an international comic, graphic novel and illustration festival called Boomfest, which has been held annually in St. Petersburg for nine years.

A Cold Welcome? The Baltic states and the refugee crisis

A Cold Welcome? The Baltic states and the refugee crisis

tol.org — The Baltic states' mixed reception for refugees is drawing criticism from elsewhere in Europe.

Postcards from a Soviet Childhood

Postcards from a Soviet Childhood

readrussia.com — Ukrainian artist Zoya Cherkassky is more than eight months pregnant and expects to bring a new life into the world 'any day' now. She was siphoned out of the Soviet Union in 1991, heading to Tel Aviv as one of more than a million Soviet Jews who ended up in Israel in the same period. She was 14 at the time.

Sweeping up History: Stalin and Memory Politics in the Midst of Victory

Sweeping up History: Stalin and Memory Politics in the Midst of Victory

readrussia.com — Last week, no fewer than two representations of Stalin were erected on territory currently under Russian jurisdiction: A statue in Lipetsk in southwestern Russia - less than 500km from the eastern Ukrainian border, and in Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula, which, for a second year, will not be allowed to publicly commemorate the 1944 mass deportations of Crimean Tatars on May 18.

Constructivist Utopia Narkomfin Endangered by Renovation Project | Arts and Ideas

Constructivist Utopia Narkomfin Endangered by Renovation Project | Arts and Ideas

themoscowtimes.com — Moscow's connoisseurs of constructivism have their work cut out for them at the moment in a fight to save their most treasured landmarks. While the Shukhov radio tower has been seizing the limelight in recent weeks, Le Corbusier inspiration Narkomfin is now facing imminent threat.

Foreign Friendships, Federalism, Finances: Moscow's relations with Tatarstan

Foreign Friendships, Federalism, Finances: Moscow's relations with Tatarstan

The Kazan Herald — Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tatarstan has asserted a strong regional identity, pursuing international ties outside of Russia. However, the past two decades have seen it develop this identity in very different relations with both Russia and other countries, neatly separated by Putin's first presidency.

Aliide Naylor

Aliide Naylor

The Times — Aliide Naylor is a freelance journalist who started contributing to The Times in February 2022, reporting on weapons movements near the Belarus-Lithuania border just before Russia launched its full-sc