In Vladimir Putin's Russia, writing about certain subjects — the war in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church or LGBTQ+ life — can mean prison time. But for a new generation of Russian writers living ...
Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Chekov beware: Putin is coming for the books. The latest front in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on LGBTQ+ people is purging books with LGBTQ+ content from Russia’s ...
In Russia, censorship is prohibited by the constitution. This does not in the least prevent books from being banned both de facto and de jure, however. In the past month — on the recommendation of the ...
Russia has always loomed large in the imagination, probably never more than during the Cold War, when it was the Evil Empire whose communist leaders projected a desire for world domination. These days ...
The StraightForward Foundation helps Russian authors publish abroad. Here are the French and Russian edition covers of a book about the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, by Ilia Barabanov and Denis ...