Barack Obama makes history
"...What light through yonder window breaks?" The world is changing. Well, it is, in fact, always in a state of flux, but no more is it evident than on days like today. Before he died, Tupac Shakur...
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
Election 08: “High Anxiety”
Watching this election, electronically linked up to voters across the United States and beyond, is a surreal and beautiful experience. I wish I could tell you that it doesn't matter what the outcome...
Springtime for skinheads: murdering people for the colour of their shoelaces
I didn't find out about this murder in Irkutsk, Russia, on the news. I discovered this first through the blog of a friend of a friend. An independent media source has highlighted this incident, the...
The McCain campaign: lipstick and lynch mobs
As the McCain campaign's desperate attempts to paint Barack Obama as all but a "domestic terrorist" have elicited cries of "kill him!" from the lynch mo... *cough* the adoring crowd, McCain's own...
MTV Ukraine makes a mockery of domestic violence
Last weekend, I was sitting in a restaurant in Kyiv, eating barbecue wings, and witnessing a new low in the world of Ukrainian media. The recently launched MTV Ukraine was showing a translated...
The heroes of the New Cold War (and what idiots they are)
A lot of people want a New Cold War. After all, the War on Terror is just too confusing and troublesome and, let's face it, terrifying. Poker-faced Soviet villains had hot side-kicks. Hollywood loved...
Russia and Georgia: darkness falls
This is a special edition of this column. Here are two things you ought to know about the conflict flaring up between Russia and Georgia: First of all, Russia does not want NATO on her doorstep, and...
The deaths that bind us: Solzhenitsyn, Pugovkin, Mordyukova
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
Gods and Nymphs: the myths and realities of modern life and love
A few months ago, I read that Russian women have lost the war against sexism, and that one of the symptoms of said defeat is the dominance of the Nymph - "a professional beauty," the ideal partner...
Euro 2008: boys with balls
Thank God for the existence of Iker Casillas. The Spanish keeper, team captain, and Legolas-like wonderboy made the final bearable for me. Casillas made me think back to 2002, when this unusually...