Uzbekistan's top sportsmen and women are often seen as spokespeople for the country's openness to the world, but also for the slow pace of economic liberalization within the country.
François Forestier unearths the blacklists of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. At the heart of his novel are politics and justice thugs, all in a style that doesn't take. But the idea was promising.
Few people anticipated the outbreak of war in the Ukraine, partly because it has characteristics that evoke a war that should have happened forty years ago. The novel «Tempête rouge» (Red Storm), published in 1986, proved to be just such a visionary work.
Russian-Ukrainian, former USSR diplomat under Brezhnev and Gorbachev, and author of an impressive literary work, Vladimir Fedorovsky gives Le Regard Libre his views on the conflict in Ukraine and its political and geopolitical consequences.
J’aurais tendance à dire que Le domaine Pouchkine est un roman sur des questions existentielles. Des questions existentielles concernant un...
In the West, the announcement of the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) marked a decisive turning point. The Cold War was won by a landslide, and the ghost of Politburo domination vanished once and for all. But what really happened?
LONG-FORM ARTICLE, Jean-David Ponci | Member of the Supreme Soviet in 1947, General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers in 1960, Hero of Socialist Labor in 1966… These appointments, accepted reluctantly, were often merely a means of publishing articles in his name that he had not written, or of making him read speeches he did not approve of. This fits well with the totalitarian conception of power, according to which everything is at the service of the state. Shostakovich was supposed to be just another cog in this gigantic machine. How can an artist remain creative under such conditions? Shostakovich does more than simply respond to this dilemma; he embodies it through his very life. Just as a tightrope walker must submit to the laws of gravity if he is to survive, Shostakovich submits to the regime’s relentless laws, yet at the same time defies them by composing music that can be interpreted as a mockery.
War eludes those who wage it.
The Madame Bovary of Soviet cinema
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