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Watch: Ukraine and Russia - what happens next?

Galway Arts Festival • 11 Oct 22

Sunday Miscellany: The Steps of Odessa, by Frank Shouldice

Sunday Miscellany • 11 Apr 22

Beyond Pussy Riot: rock, pop, rap & the Russian invasion

opinion • 04 Apr 22

In The Picture: Daragh Muldowney's Beacons

Photographer Daragh Muldowney has been travelling to Lake Baikal, Siberia, the largest freshwater lake on the planet, for the past three years, compiling work for his exhibition Beacons, which documents his many trips to this stunning area...
visual arts • 22 Feb 21

Where do I begin? RTÉ Arena on the work of Anton Chekhov

For RTÉ Arena, Helen Meany explores the life and work of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov...
RTÉ Arena • 05 Feb 21

Reviewed: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov

Six longer short stories, as it were, almost novellas, are the matter in hand from the pen of the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) whose Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was famously adapted for Dmitri Shoskatovich's opera of the same name.
Books • 13 Nov 20

Reviewed: Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World

"Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, " declared Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) of his compatriot, Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) who like Solzhenitsyn and millions of others, endured incarceration in Soviet Gulags
Books • 22 Jan 20

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