culture
How money stained with Ukrainian blood feeds contemporary art in Venice
A new cultural institution is headed by the daughter of an oligarch directly participating in the genocidal war.
Yulia Sineokaya: “We are Engaged in a Critical Analysis of the Catastrophe”
The Russian philosopher, in exile in Paris, speaks in this interview about the state of science in Russia, odious figures like Zinoviev and Dugin, and the role of philosophy in our world.
When Soft Power Turns Hard
The Ukrainian political scientist calls on the West to be lucid, because Russian propagandists are using culture to give a more “humane” image to the genocidal barbarity of the Putin regime.
Maria Vassilievna Rozanova: a Major Figure of Russian Literature and Dissidence
It is not easy to profile Maria Vassilievna Rozanova (1930, Vitebsk - 2023, Fontenay-aux-Roses), a publisher, author, art historian, architect, jeweler and fashion designer. This valiant, brilliant and unclassifiable woman was a key figure in Russian intellectual life and a great mind.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Paris was the...
Russian-soviet History: the March Backwards
The new book of Françoise Thom, La marche à rebours. Regards sur l'histoire soviétique et russe, Sorbonne université presses, 2021, is a sum in which the author reassesses Russian and Soviet history in light of the numerous discoveries that the opening of many archives and the emergence of many...