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This richly evocative tale – part of a project drawing on the work of long-forgotten contemporaries of Dostoevsky – bears repeated readings

‘This was taken during the city’s White Nights festival. There were girls standing in the streets, eyes closed, arms outstretched. Others were singing, dancing and drinking champagne. This girl didn’t move for a long time’

The Russian Book Union recently sent a letter to the Russian Duma, one of the chambers of the country’s parliament, expressing concern that a proposed bill expanding the scope of forbidden LGBTQ+ “propaganda” could lead to the banning of works of classic literature, including books by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky,…

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Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

Has Vladimir Putin amassed more power than anyone else in the world? Forbes magazine picked him as the world’s most powerful person three years in a row (from 2013 to 2015). A 2018 CNN documentary portrayed him in the same way.

As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when Russian cultural productions are being canceled around the world.

Egyptian poet Tarek Hashem has released his new poetry collection, "Everything Dostoevsky Did", inspired by the world of the legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky and the cruelty, oppression, and abuse his characters lived.

From cracking down on cultural figures to renaming food, disgust with Putin risks shifting into xenophobia