Podcast: Then & Now #7 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Boris Kuznetsov

5 June 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the seventh episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   In recent weeks, politically motivated trials and lengthy prison…

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Podcast: Then & Now #6 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Dmitry Oreshkin

15 May 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the sixth episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   Whilst our podcast is mostly about people for whom…

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Podcast: Then & Now #5 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Marina Ovsyannikova

20 April 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the fifth episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   With me today is Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist…

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Podcast: Then & Now #4 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Andrei Kurkov

16 March 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the fourth episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   Our latest guest is the Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov.…

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Podcast: Then & Now #3 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Gudkov

17 March 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the third episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24,…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Kilometer 101’ by Maxim Osipov

9 March 2023 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, and Alex Fleming. Paperback 296pp ISBN-9781681376868 (New York Review…

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Svetlana Gannushkina Right Livelihood Award 2016 Stockholm 11 / 2016 Photo: Wolfgang Schmidt

Podcast: Then & Now #2 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Svetlana Gannushkina

20 February 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the second episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24,…

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Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, ahead of an interview for Bloomberg Quicktake's "Emma Barnett Meets," in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

Podcast: Then & Now – with Marina Litvinenko

15 January 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to our new Russian-language podcast, Then & Now, with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything,…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Living Pictures’ by Polina Barskova

8 December 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Living Pictures by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Catherine Ciepiela and with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky. Paperback 224pp ISBN-9781782277606 (Pushkin Press,…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Rich Russians: from Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie’ by Elisabeth Schimpfössl

28 July 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Rich Russians: from Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie by Elisabeth Schimpfössl. Hardback 248pp ISBN-9780190677763 (Oxford University Press, New York, 2018) In 2008, the year Russia invaded Georgia,…

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