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Europe

Museums in Search of Lost Russia

photography by Lily Idov

From "jars of small beasts" to Soviet scientific firsts

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Museums
  • Photography

Did You Know?

Sorbonne, 1968

  • Europe
  • France
  • Politics
  • Protest

Taking to the Streets

Mikhail Fishman

Pro-democracy protests were loud in Moscow in 2011, but slowly got quieter

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Politics
  • Protest

Mediazona

Stranger’s Guide

The media arm of Pussy Riot that takes pot shots at Putin

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Media
  • Politics
  • Protest

Russia’s Big Ballet: A Drama in Three Acts

Stranger’s Guide

Crime and intrigue in the Bolshoi was as dark as any performance

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Dance

Putin’s Influence on Russia’s Media

Stranger’s Guide

The leader's third term saw the demise of strong journalism in a country already lacking press freedom

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Journalism
  • Media

Readings

Healing Waters of Bath

  • England
  • Europe
  • United Kingdom
  • Healing
  • Nature

My Moscow

Ludmila Ulitskaya

A writer remembers the city of her youth

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Childhood
  • Memoir

Russia’s Hip-Hop Underground

Michael Idov
photography by Maria Ionova-Gribina

How an uncensored strain of rap is mounting a fight for free expression

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Music
  • Subculture

The 13th Century City of Coexistence

Casey O’Brien

Granada's stunning sites showcase a time and place when Christians, Muslims and ethnic minorities lived side by side

  • Europe
  • Granada
  • Spain
  • Culture
  • Religion

Dead and Kicking

Olga Voronina

Writer's haunts—and haunting writers—in Moscow

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Literature

Paper Architecture

Yuri Avvakumov

A utopian movement imagined buildings for a post-Communist world that never was

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Architecture
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