J.B. Spins

At this point, everyone should be extremely cautious when visiting Russia or China, because they are hostile powers that employ hostage-taki...

For TV Rain, there was no revolution to televise—just the rise of an Orwellian dictatorship. At first, the oppression increased at a steady ...

Being an archivist sounds like it should be a boring job. Unfortunately, such has not been the case for Yuri Dmitriev. He found himself pers...

Remember when the phrase “speaking truth to power” became an overused cliché? It never caught on in Putin’s Russia. Nina Belyayeva knows tha...

If you are an American who still works abroad in Russia or China, here is a simple question: are you out of your mind? After seeing how both...

Fossil fuels are the only things propping up the Russian economy right now, so don’t expect Putin to help reduce carbon emissions. Keep in m...

Russians have had to hustle to survive for over a century now. The grizzled old miner Volodya will be the first to admit it. However, doing ...

It is a matter of inspiration rather than adaptation. Dostoevsky’s short story sparked something for the Moscow-trained, Ukrainian filmma...

If the neo-Soviet Russian government is willing to allow a Polish filmmaker access to one of its distant sub-arctic posts, it is a safe bet ...

Even though he was badly hung-over, he knew a national crisis was underway. Though the Russian did not know at the time the hard-line Commun...

Even though he was badly hung-over, he knew there was a national crisis. Though the Russian did not know at the time the hard-line Communist...

Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Greenberg is one of the leading authorities on the structure of the universe, but it is increasingly difficult for him...

Call it the school for Jean Valjeans. Boy after boy incarcerated in a Russian reformatory school tells a similar story—sentenced for two to ...