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Posted on January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

I survived a terrorist attack when I was 13 years old.

On August 31, 1999, a handmade bomb exploded in a popular Moscow shopping mall. I was there, and watched rubble, dust, and screaming erupt around me. Read more about the event and my changing understanding of this experience in an essay over at Pacific Standard.

Posted on September 25, 2014

National Worthlessness = Death

In The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt argues that totalitarian rule is truly possible only in countries that are large enough to be able to…

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Posted on February 15, 2014February 15, 2014

“You’re not always prepared for so much feeling”

"What country are we living in and in what year, when priests bless half-drunk nationalists that pelt people with rocks while the police look on…

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Posted on October 16, 2013

Our Soviet Grandmothers and Our Love of Russian Words

Just read a lovely experimental essay about immigrant identity and longing. It's a piece by Anna Prushinskaya up at The Millions. An excerpt: I set alarms to call…

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Posted on September 17, 2012September 17, 2012

Today is the 1 Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

UPDATE: [1:46 pm]:  Samhita over at Feministing says it way better than I can: "I ask not 'where is occupy?' but what will it take…

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Posted on February 16, 2012July 6, 2012

Alina Simone on The Cold War

  From an op-ed by singer/songwriter/author Alina Simone in the Wall Street Journal: But as recent headlines make clear, we still haven’t managed to outrun some of…

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Posted on December 7, 2011

Moscow Protests: Quick Summary & Takeaways

For the last two days, Muscovites have been taking to the streets to protest the recent (and rigged) Russian parliamentary election results. They have been…

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Posted on May 18, 2011

Breaking: Moscow Pride Banned Again

The Russian Government has marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) by once again banning Moscow Gay Pride. Moscow's Deputy Mayor Ludmila Shvetsova cites…

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Posted on March 9, 2011March 9, 2011

Glory Behold Ye, Chocolate Babka

Yesterday, I introduced eight or so people to the joy that is Chocolate Babka. If you don't know this  food, god's biggest gift to the…

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Posted on May 18, 2009May 19, 2009

No Humor in Russia’s Recent News

I was going to continue my new weekly Russia Roundup of Humor tradition, but the biggest piece of Russian news isn't really funny.  So I'm…

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