Manu Remakant
Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour
The tragedy of a country caught between history and geography
No autocrat as sanguineous as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is at work today, and it’s nostalgia that drives his extraterritorial ambition.
What it foretells when strange things happen to the Pope and no one is unduly worried
The former editor of Russian Playboy on Ukraine’s curious distinction of having the highest number of gorgeous women per square kilometer