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On December thirty-first in Russia, the clock strikes midnight eleven times. Not consecutively, but an hour apart, and each time...
Tim is eleven, lives in Toronto, and talks to his grandmother from Petersburg every Saturday. One Saturday, his grandmother complained...
The plane from Helsinki lands at Sheremetyevo after dark, and the first Russian word Dan hears spoken live, not from an app,...
During the most terrible months, voices were rarely heard on Leningrad radio. Instead, a metronome ticked in the speakers, steady and soft,...
In the autumn of 1942, the front line in Stalingrad sometimes ran through a single house. The Germans occupied the first floor, and our soldiers the second,...
Cue up an old black and white recording from September 1972, and you'll see a strange sight. Canadian professionals, the best hockey players on the planet, looking around in confusion on their own...
Ask what the most Russian name is, and almost certainly they'll say Alexander or Maria, or even Ivan, the one from the fairy tales...
In mid-February, a child growing up far from Russia brings home paper hearts and Valentine's cards from school, because Valentine's Day is in...
The child points at the screen and laughs. On the loading screen for the game, there's a building with bright, winding turrets, and the child...
People have done all sorts of things with death in fairy tales: they've hidden from it, tricked it, begged for extensions. But one character went further...
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