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The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten …

Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the years – Satan’s disease, diver’s palsy, the chokes – but today, medics call it decompression …

"Sår är en resa att ge sig in i, men värd varje snårig omväg, särskilt när det går upp för en att det är omvägarna som är hela saken."DagensETC"en märklig resedagbok, upprörande, …

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict — its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do …

Utgang fra trancen, som er redigert av Peter Normann Waage og oversatt av ham og professor Geir Flikke, er en samling essays og artikler av den russiske kulturfilosofen Grigorij …

The optimistic vision of a “Europe whole and free” after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and …

‘A brilliant book’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how …

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and …

Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield reveals the layers of meaning …

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant …