Stories
Long reads and featured stories about Russia — culture, mindset, media, everyday life. Pick a topic, or read down the list.
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How French hacked the Russian language
And why it surprises everyone
1 min readRussian nobility spoke French better than Russian
True or false?
1 min readThese Westerners moving to Russia
For genuinely weird reasons
1 min readHow Russians actually see Westerners IRL
Spoiler: it's not what you think
1 min readMy Moscow: what nobody actually tells you
The unfiltered truth
1 min readWhen coverage of Russia merges state and people
A look at how the shortcut works, and what it leaves out
1 min readSanctions, and the turn toward China
Two things that happened in the same decade
1 min readWestern politics seen by a non-Westerner
External perspective
1 min read