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As part of Russian Culture Week, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen will give two public talks Thursday at the University of Colorado. Gessen will discuss Russia's anti-gay movement in a talk titled "Russia, the New Anti-Gay Capital of the World," and the punk band Pussy Riot in a talk titled "Words...

Looking at comic novelist Gary Shteyngart's life and career through a science-fictional prism, he sort of has it all, at least metaphorically: futurism, "time travel," technophilia. He's even an alien. Or as close to it as you can come. Born in the former Soviet Union in 1972, he immigrated with...

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A book on Russian women's folk traditions published by the University of Wisconsin Press has won the 2013 Chicago Folklore Prize, the oldest and most prestigious international book award in folklore studies, established in 1904. It also was awarded the Eli Köngäs-Maranda Prize for folklore studies of women. Both awards...