Memory
CONFLICT: A child’s-eye chronicle of Grozny, migration, and abuse, refracted into lyrical images that soften brutality without forgetting.
Yeltsin
Victory Day
RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army’s victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.
Requiem for a dream
RUSSIA: The absurdity of life in Yekaterinburg and the clash between those longing for imperial greatness and a small group of dissidents standing against Putin’s impending invasion of Ukraine.
A logical consequence of the Cold War?
RUSSIA: M.E. Sarotte demonstrates thorough knowledge of the Cold War – and today’s horrific continuation of it.
From protégée to dictator
RUSSIA: A glimpse into Vladimir Putin‘s rise to power – from his early promises of media freedom to the flagrant disregard of democratic norms.