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Russia (Federation)

To the Penal Colony

by Masha Gessen,

By Masha Gessen, from Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, out now from Riverhead Books. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, members of the Russian punk-rock…

Cold War Kids

by Irina Aleksander,

The international dispute over Russia’s orphans

Le Misérable

Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From open letters by the actor Gérard Depardieu, addressed to French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and to the Russian press. In January, Depardieu obtained Russian citizenship in order to evade…