Podcast No. 60: Simon & Sergei – with Lev Shlosberg
This week our guest on the podcast is Lev Markovich Shlosberg. Lev Markovich is a Russian politician, a civil society and human rights activist, and a journalist. He is chair…
Remember the Date: Boris Yeltsin resigns as president on 31 December 1999; Vladimir Putin becomes president.
Photo source: Wikipedia On 31 December 1999 Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) resigned as President of the Russian Federation. He had first been elected to that post on 10 July 1991. He…
Marjorie Farquharson: A brief note from Moscow (August 1991)
This short piece by Marjorie Farquharson was originally published on the website Marjorie and is republished here by kind permission. I’m definitely not into heroics, but see some real advantages…
Remember the Date: 11 December 1994 marked the beginning of the First Chechen War
Chechen women praying in Grozny, December 1994. Source: Evstafiev, Wikipedia On 11 December 1994 Russian forces launched a ground offensive towards Grozny, marking the start of the First Chechen War. …