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Samantha Berkhead’s Biography

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Originally from Rochester, N.Y., she graduated from St. Bonaventure University in December 2013 with a degree in journalism and mass communication. During college, she studied abroad at Ulster University in Northern Ireland and served as editor-in-chief of the Bona Venture, covering local environmental issues and campus diversity initiatives.

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‘Queer Quark’: Evgeniya Rudyuk Interweaves Life in Exile with Late Anti-War Pianist’s Diaries

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By Samantha Berkhead Verified
| The Moscow Times Verified
When theatre director Evgeniya Rudyuk traveled to the Jewish autonomous district in Russia’s Far East in 2025 to take part in a research expedition, it was her first time visiting the region where she was born and raised since fleeing Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While there, she discovered the story of Pavel Kushnir, a pianist who had died on hunger strike in the region a year earlier after being jailed for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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With ‘Memory Remains,’ Curator Vladimir Shalamov Is Preserving the History the Kremlin Wants to Erase

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By Samantha Berkhead Verified
| The Moscow Times Verified
When deciding on the theme for the third edition of the Artists Against the Kremlin art exhibition, curator Vladimir Shalamov turned toward the past — or, rather, the Kremlin’s present-day manipulation of it. As his Berlin-based team, the Prometheus cultural project, brainstormed ideas, Russian authorities were taking aim at institutions dedicated to preserving some of the country’s darkest, most painful memories.
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For Russia’s Wartime Diaspora, New Year’s Traditions Become a Tether to Home

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By Samantha Berkhead Verified
| The Moscow Times Verified
Ahead of New Year’s Eve, the biggest holiday in Russia, Sergei, 30, a Russian IT specialist based in Romania, said he would try to watch “The Irony of Fate,” the 1975 romantic comedy that is a New Year’s staple in Russia, in its entirety for the first time. “It's kind of a weird tradition that came from the U.S.S.R., but there is something cozy about it,” Sergei said. Sergei is one of the estimated 650,000 Russians who left the country after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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