... Denisova and Yury Urnov 71 denisova and urnov mother s life easier to swallow. One must be born in a bomb shelter during World War ii, like my mom was, to refuse to go down there now, during the war with Putin; no writer can invent such a life-­plot. urnov You write a lot about Putin. I get it, evil...

... Vladimir Putin Gogol Center Teatr.doc censorship Impromptu flower memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, Moscow, 2015. Photo: John Freedman John Freedman “Can One Enter a Theater Softly?” A Moscow Critic’s Journal, 2010 – 15 This is, and is not, a sequel to a piece I...

... you do with feet like mine. man Back in the thirteenth century, Batu Khan would survey Kyiv from our neighborhood. He also wanted to conquer it. He and the putin both thought we would greet him with flowers. daughter Mama takes military binoculars and surveys the terrain entrusted to her. mother...

.... Chirac, Bush, Berlusconi, John Paul II, Sharon, Arafat, Schröder, and Putin: their statements from the first two weeks after the attack are presented in all their nakedness. Director Patrick von Blume and dramaturg Gottfried Meyer-Thoss cast actors whose appearances question what is already known about...

.... Russian president Vladimir Putin vowed never to negotiate with “terrorists,” and after two days of covert training, Russian special forces gassed the theater building with a neurotoxin, resulting in the deaths of at least 120 hostages. But the decade-long war has not stopped, and neither have...

... have been high. In 1995, Boris Yeltsin launched a criminal investigation into Kukly, a political puppet satire on Russian television — an obvious attempt to intimidate the puppets. Five years later, forbidden to show President Putin puppet on the show, Kukly aired a Putin-less episode in which...

... out just how few are in place even fifteen years later. Indeed, under Vladimir Putin, there has been a steady slide into corruption and authoritarianism while war in Chechnya and terrorist violence remain open wounds. The directors, producers, and playwrights I spoke...

... innovative of the season, emerges as a meditation on the nature of Yukhananov’s unique manner of theater as well as on the nature of theater in general. November. Rumors begin flying that a major theater reform is in the works — President Vladimir Putin’s administration has decided to overhaul...

... that would resonate with today’s audience, from Putin to Schwarzenegger, translating Gozzi into lazzi. 114 st. petersburg’s new wave Moguchii’s latest work is an adaptation of Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg, a copro...

... of Crimea from the Ukraine, its state policies 6 up front stoking homophobic brutalities, and the Putin regime’s draconian censorship tactics and anti-­Western posture. In all instances, the artists absented themselves while...

... of Crimea from the Ukraine, its state policies 6 up front stoking homophobic brutalities, and the Putin regime’s draconian censorship tactics and anti-­Western posture. In all instances, the artists absented themselves while...

... of holding the international platform in St. Petersburg in the wake of Russia’s militant annexation of Crimea from the Ukraine, its state policies 6 up front stoking homophobic brutalities, and the Putin regime’s draconian censorship...

... “kings” as Silvio Berlusconi, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, and Vladimir Putin — each identified by a cartoonish mask and wearing nothing but a tight-fitting bathing suit and necktie cut from the fabric of each leader’s respective national flag. In drunken bliss, they sang...

... of hand-­marked cardboard signs, made a selection, and costumed themselves as the characters named on the signs with clothes grabbed hastily from two nearby racks. Displaying the signs to the pact audience — sigmund freud, an internet celebrity of no fixed talent, vladi- mir putin...

... to withstand their dominion. As much as Orbán admires Vladimir Putin (and he managed to exempt Hungary from the European embargo against Russian oil last spring), his authoritarianism is more bureaucratic than blustery. Through legalistic maneuvers and scads of money, his regime swamps rather than aggressively...