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For the Love of Soups

In Russia and its close neighbors, there is a soup for every weather, every occasion and every taste.

Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2025 Book Prize

The short list for the annual award has become the collection of the season's must-read books.
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Inside Russia’s ‘Micro-Politics’: Ethnographer Jeremy Morris on the Quiet Resilience of Daily Life

The Moscow Times speaks to the British ethnographer about his latest book. 
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Justice Ministry Investigating TV Presenter Urgant Over Alleged Foreign Influence

State media reported last month that the presenter registered as an individual entrepreneur in France. Urgant denied the report.
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‘Make the Pushkin Museum Great Again’: After a Game of Musical Chairs, New Director Toes the Official Line

Unlike her predecessors at the Pushkin Museum, Olga Galaktionova is completely aligned with the government agenda.
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Slightly Sinful Nut-Filled Pancakes

In the old days Lent in the Russian Empire was not always as harsh as we imagine today.
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In Photos: Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Russia

Thousands of Muslims across the country marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Victoria Lomasko’s 'The Last Soviet Artist' Chronicles Russia's Path to Dictatorship

Travelogue, graphic novel, sociological study: Victoria Lomasko's works are a genre unto themselves.
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How a Singer, a Writer and a Cook Spent Their Vacation in 1916

How a book of recipes came out of a visit to Crimea by opera signer Fyodor Shalyapin and writer Maxim Gorky.
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What We Know About Jude Law’s Upcoming Turn as Vladimir Putin

Law will portray the Russian leader in “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” an adaptation of a novel loosely based on Kremlin ideologist Vladislav Surkov...
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Russia’s Tatarstan, Central Asian Diaspora Celebrate Nowruz

Persian and Turkic communities worldwide joined in celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
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Azerbaijani Soup and a Greedy Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

In the #weekendkitchen we're cooking up a minty-saffrony lamb soup from Azerbaijan.
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Howard Amos' 'Russia Starts Here' Reveals a Country Rarely Seen

Journalist Howard Amos spent years in the Pskov region, the most western tip of Russia, capturing the stories and images of beauty and darkness.
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The Eternal Allure of Georgian Fried Chicken

Head to your local farmer's market, buy a young hen, pull out your cast-iron skillets, and pretend you are in the Caucasus...
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Russian-Tatar Composer Sofia Gubaidulina Dies at 93

A nonconformist who endured Soviet censorship before emigrating to the West, Gubaidulina spent years in obscurity before gaining recognition as one of...
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'Can You Hear Me?' Brings Life of War Medics to Audiences Around the World

A film about frontline medics in the war Russia is waging in Ukraine is touring Europe with the filmmakers.
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Vera Krichevskaya's 'Connected' Premieres at Artdocfest in Riga

The story of a connection between two men, young and old, American and Russian, and the fate of doing business in post-Soviet Russia.
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A Classic Recipe for Marinated Fish and a Dark Page from the Soviet Past

During the famines of the 1930s Soviet scientists found a way to produce protein - from Black Sea dolphins.
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3 Years Since Leaving Russia, Emigres Seek to Memorialize the Diaspora Experience

A new outcropping of projects seeks to give voice to a generation of Russians who have left their homeland, perhaps for good.
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