At this year’s BookExpo America, in Chicago, one news release among hundreds stood out for its chilly remembrance of things past. “Outcry Against Putin’s Book Censorship Campaign to Surface in the U.S ...
Editor: Forty-one years ago, I took a course called “Contemporary Russia” taught by a Russian emigre who escaped from the USSR. We learned what life was like in an economically depressed, spiritually ...
A: In my hometown, Gomel, Belarus, when it was still part of the former USSR. The government had banned rock ‘n’ roll, to play or listen to it. But we could hear it on shortwave radio. I fell in love ...
“You have to look at Putin and Russia as an expansionist power,” Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, recently acknowledged. “He wants to re-establish ...
Hey, kids, meet Josef Stalin. New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and rehabilitate the ...
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