Current State of Russia – Holod Magazine

Q&A

“This is the last Russian war”

Historian Alexander Etkind recently published a book on how Russia is fighting a war against the contemporary world. Holod has spoken to him about how Russia is waging that war, and when it is going to end

Maksim Zagovora

01.06.2023

Opinion

“But you’re one of us!” No, I’m not

Dankhayaa Khovalyg believes that her native Republic of Tyva is de-facto a colony in Russia rather than an equal member of the federation. Here’s why.

Dankhayaa Khovalyg

07.06.2023

Opinion: society

Don’t Look, Don’t See, Don’t Know

Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson on why Russians are in denial about the war

Svetlana Stephenson

25.08.2022

Magazine

You’re turning your daughter into a Russia-hating monster

Arguments, denunciations and threats: how Russians argue over the war in group chats for neighbors and schoolkids’ parents.

Holod

22.03.2023

Magazine

The most Slavic among the Slavs

Three decades ago, Russian soldiers invaded a newly independent state to “protect” the Russian-speaking population: it happened in Transnistria, a region of Moldova. With that war still fresh in many Transnistrians’ memories, they’re now grappling with the effects of the war raging in neighboring Ukraine

Olesia Ostapchuk

04.05.2023

Magazine

My Life for the Party

Mary Reed, an American, arrived in the Soviet Union in 1927. In the land of her dreams, she found love but lost her freedom.

28.03.2023

Magazine: pop scene

The end of the “post-Soviet” cultural space

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered the common cultural space which had its center in Moscow. Holod examines today’s pop music to figure out what Russian culture is turning into

Aleksandr Gorbachev

19.12.2022

Magazine: perversion of justice

Lessons Learned

On an island in the Pacific a schoolteacher would always help colleagues in need. When his native village was bombed out they reported him to the police for anti-war stance

Holod

19.08.2022

Magazine

Airborne Infection

Vladimir Solovyov is a man of many professions. He studied engineering and economics, taught physics at a high school, ran a variety of successful businesses, and hosted Russia’s most popular talk shows of the 2000s. Today he is the arch-warmonger of the Russian state media.

Olesia Ostapchuk

21.03.2023

war in ukraine

Magazine: war crimes

Leave Your Bike, Run to the River

The story of a woman killed in Bucha told by her daughters, who learned about her death from news reports featuring the photo of a “woman with red nail polish”

Holod

25.07.2022

Magazine

How Russia steals Ukrainian children and subjects them to “reeducation”

Main facts from the TV Rain report

Julia Selikhova

24.03.2023

Magazine: mariupol

The Heart of the War

Having spent two months beneath Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol under constant shelling and bombing, surviving civilians tell their stories

Holod

29.07.2022

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