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Book Reviews

Day of the Oprichnik

Death and The Penguin

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Vladimir Sorokin, 2006


'If the world is to end by human hand, it will come from Russia'. Seeing into the future with Modern Russia's master of dystopia. 

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Andrey Kurkov, 1996


A post-Soviet masterpiece of modern surrealism. The Mafia, a penguin and a gang of misfits in a darkly tragic-comic tale of modern life Kiev.



The Man Without A Face

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The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Masha Gessen, 2011

A review of the brave expose of the Russian Federation's Commander-in-Chief by Masha Gessen

Read About the recent Moscow Elections: Alexei Navalny

See photos of Putin's Moscow


The Angel of Grozny

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Inside Chechnya, Asne Seierstad, 2007 

A review of the Norwegian journalists trip to war torn Chechnya and again during its rapid post war recovery.



Read about Ramzan Kardyrov and his republic

Once in Kazakhstan

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The Snow Leopard Emerges (2005) Keith Rosten


A log of a historic period in newly independent Kazakhstan addressing the troubles in trying to implement democracy and legal structures in the post Soviet world.


Read about modern Kazakhstan

See photos of newly constructed Astana, capital of Kazakhstan 

The Sky Unwashed

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A story from within The Exclusion Zone, Irene Zabytko, 2000


Moving tale of the villagers living through the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident






Ali and Nino

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Ali and Nino, (1937) Kuban Said

The Cold War

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For Forty Five Years the World Held its Breath (2012) Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing