Liza Fomkina and her aunt - a woman suffering from a disability - went missing on September 13 after taking two dogs on a walk in Orekhovo-Zuevo, a town in the Moscow region. The aunt's body was...
“Education, education, education.” New Labour’s old mantra rings hollow to English teacher Robert Anderson. This venerable warhorse stalks his classroom with the kind of “Dark sarcasm”...
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When you're doomed to lead a perpetually exciting life, playwriting is not the best way of attaining peace and balance. This may surprise people who only know Russian drama through painfully earnest...
After the heartbreaking revelations about the treatment of children in Irish industrial schools, documented in the Ryan Report, it is difficult to imagine how any action by the state or the...
I was clicking my boot heels (autumn has suddenly decided to make its appearance in formerly heat-struck Moscow - with a maniacal vengeance) down the broken pavement, splashing through the puddles,...
By the time my birthday rolled around this year, I was away from Moscow for a while - taking care of family business, mostly. Because the situation surrounding the health of a relative in Kiev was...
The train was departing at 11: 23 p.m. At 11:06 p.m., I had just bounded out of my building, and was standing on the side of the road, hand outstretched. A small sedan heeded my desperate call. "Can...
Welcome to the re-launching of Natalia's column. It will run every other Sunday, and will now be more personal, for we have decreed that it will be so. Forever and ever - or until she gets bored with...