Who borrowed her book titles from Dostoevsky? The Saturday quiz From stingrays to sports bras, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2022
From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today. Foreign Policy · Jun 25, 2022
Russian roulette in Ukraine: Is Vladimir Putin powerful, or just lucky? 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. The Conversation · Jun 7, 2022
How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia's war against Ukraine? 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. The Conversation · Apr 6, 2022
'Everything Dostoevsky Did': A New Poetry Collection by Tarek Hashem 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. Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 23, 2022
Dumping vodka, banning Dostoevsky: some anti-Russian protests are empty gestures From cracking down on cultural figures to renaming food, disgust with Putin risks shifting into xenophobia The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2022
Milan University Shocks Intellectuals by Suspending Dostoevsky Lectures Bewilderment and confusion have descended on Italian cultural circles since Wednesday due to a decision taken by a prestigious university in Milan to suspend a series of teaching lectures that were to be given by the well-known writer Paolo Nori about Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky. Nori had published “It… Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 4, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war raises interest in Dallas bookstore’s unlikely collective read DALLAS -- A few weeks ago, Interabang Books co-owner Lori Feathers organized a collective read of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov." Tribune News Service · Mar 4, 2022
Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to “single combat” for Ukraine The world’s richest man ever is having quite the morning. Mic · Feb 21, 2022