This Artist’s Worldview Drips With Unending Pessimism
“Man is inherently self-destructive, and whatever is built will be destroyed,” says painter Donald Sultan of his “Disaster Paintings”
Wine Time: A Real Corker
Russian cheese comes of age at this new restaurant near Trubnaya.
Russian Man Kills 9 in Drunken Party Rampage
Nine people were shot and killed in Russia’s Tver region on the night of June 4 following a drunken argument at a party. The suspected shooter is 45-year old Sergei Yegorov, a part-time electrician.
Director of Ukrainian Library in Moscow Handed 4-Year Suspended Sentence
The former director of Moscow’s State Library of Ukrainian Literature has been given a four-year suspended sentence for distributing extremist materials and embezzlement.
Russian Magazine The New Times Closes Print Amid Financial Troubles
Russian opposition-leaning magazine The New Times announced Sunday it will close its print edition due to financial problems.
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
It’s “strange bedfellows week” on Moscow television, as the small screen offers its audience great literature (live!), regrettable war criminals (dead!) and a Russian rock star whose early work during perestroika will impress.