Moscow
A ladies’ man in Moscow
Right at the outset of this autobiographical novel — in fact it reads more like a memoir — Ismail Kadare…
Rise of the mayors
The power to effect real change may lie with dynamic city halls rather than ossified national governments
Hiding in plain sight
A building bearing testimony to the power of eternal Russia; a timeless symbol of the Russian state; a monument to…
Ashes to ashes
‘I cannot describe to you what a curious note of brutality a bomb has,’ said one woman who lived through…
No use crying over spilt blood
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s One Night in Winter begins in the hours immediately following the solemn victory parade that marked the…
