In honor of the first space flight, Olga and Pavel Syutkin look back to the history of food in space and share a recipe for a light cake that is just out of this world. In the #weekendkitchen
themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/13/bak…

The Pushkin House #shortlist for their 2024 Book Prize is out. And it's great - we've already published #longreads of three, can't wait to read the others. Start reading!
themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/11/pus…

In the #weekendkitchen Olga and Pavel Syutkin tell the surprising, myth-laden tale of cheesemaking in Russia and share a recipe for light, airy, sweet, salty pockets of cheese that take minutes to make. Win-win.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/06/rus…

We will all miss Peter Leonard!

I have been so touched by the outpouring of kind words about the #wordsworth . Thank you all very much! Please check here michele-a-berdy.ck.page/263707afac so I can email you information about a new #wordsworth going forward.

Millet! Who eats millet porridge? If Olga and Pavel Syutkin had their way, everyone would. This week the #weekendkitchen is all about grain - with a frothy fruity grainy treat.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/30/rus…

The only thing I want is to see Evan free. One of my favorite people, one of my favorite reporters. I hope he knows how much he is missed.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/26/rus…

All Good Things Come to an End - or at least a pause. This is my last Word's Worth column at The Moscow Times. I like to take a break every 22 years. My thanks to all my editors and readers, and stay in touch! I probably won't be able to stay away.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/29/alw…

Non-conformist art in the Soviet Union was not all Moscow, as a new exhibition in Riga shows. If you are interested in art of this era, take a look. A revelation!
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/29/rig…

Thailand has not only welcomed Russian classical music and musicians, it has a new generation of fans.

themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/28/rus…

A Moscow ceramicist shares her opinions about world events in small figures tucked in broken walls or drainpipes.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/27/ele…

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As someone who studied at Smith College for two years and then graduated from Amherst, I’m offended. It’s the Amherst Russian Dept that has been running US policy, not the English Dept. Sheesh.

Georgy Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) has been sending 13 questions to Russian political prisoners. They are now collected in a book that is both deeply depressing (they are in jail) and very inspiring (their spirits are not broken). #sundaylongread
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/24/aut…

On days like this, I would like to disappear into a monastery and not know what horrors are going on in the world. Olga and Pavel Syutkin bring clarity about monastery food, and a comforting recipe.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/23/cra…

This week in the #wordsworth I got down and dirty in the Russian word-soup of fakes, frauds, falsities and fallacies. Lots of f-words. Lots of interesting ways to break the law. Be careful out there!
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/22/fak…

Today as gay club managers are being arrested in Russia, take a few minutes to watch a short animated film about the LGBTQ+ 'kiss-in' in front of the Duma in 2012.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/20/whe…

Pssst. Don't tell anyone, but everything tastes better with butter or cream. Or both.

This year the Artdocfest festival of documentary films from CIS, East Europe and Baltic States held in Riga showed films that were tragic, comical, innovative, shocking and heart-breaking. I wish you could see them all.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/19/art…

Analyses of Russia's economic might in time of war seem improbable when you see photographs of once booming villages less than 200 k from Moscow.
themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/18/the…