New York Times Warp: Getting Russia Wrong Since 1851
When acclaimed filmmaker German, director of such classics as My Friend, Ivan Lapshin (1984) and Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) , died last week, the New York Times published an unsatisfying obituary...
View ArticleRussian Riddles Unsolved by Americans
Harry Leeds lives in Russia and writes about culture and food (harryleeds.com). Albina is embarrassed because I must think she’s stupid. She speaks English with a foreign accent, and she makes...
View ArticleThe Confusing State of U.S.-Russia Relations
It is hard to imagine a more interesting—and confusing—time to take stock of modern U.S.-Russian relations. My Twitter feed is currently ablaze with reports of the possibility that the #US will adopt...
View ArticleTold you so about Sochi (Part II)
Twenty-four years ago, sex in in Soviet public life did not exist. Now many Russians say that homosexuality is not to their taste; they think it is immoral and wrong. That is a big change. As for...
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Snowden in Moscow: The Interview
Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation. Stephen F. Cohen is professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and professor emeritus of politics at Princeton...
View ArticleThe media game: Putting on the Cold War goggles
Ilaria Parogni is an MA student at the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University. She is completing a joint degree in Journalism & Russian and Slavic Studies On Oct. 27 viral...
View ArticleThe David Brooks I Miss; or, What Passes for Commentary about Russia
A response to David Brook’s op-ed piece, “The Russia I Miss” People who never developed the habit of reading the New York Times opinion page may not realize how powerfully it affects subscribers’...
View ArticleExperts debate The Global History of Sport in the Cold War – Day 1
On October 23, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia opened the New York session of “The Global History of Sport in the Cold War,” a two-day conference devoted to exploring the...
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