Russian Life Magazine

Explore past issues of the magazine. Issues published in the last year are generally available for sale as single issues.

Winter 2025

Winter 2025

Saving a Church and Memories * The Difficulty of Being a Trans Soldier in Russia * * Saving Dissenters from Psych Prisons * Saving the Pets from Warzones * The Perils of Dating Military Men * Books on Tolstoy * Word of the Year for 2024 * Books We Liked

Fall 2024

Fall 2024

Navalny's Effect on the Language * Teaching Lit in the New (Old) Russia * Two Villages in the North * Divorced but Not Separate * A Gulag Town Remembers * A Tale of One Family Persecuted * Social Influencer Wives of Priests * Books We Liked

Summer 2024

Summer 2024

Russia's Time of Troubles (440 years ago) * Re-emigration: Those Who Have Returned * Survival Russian in Wartime * Women Who Have Found Peace through Fishing * A Wealth of Cucumbers * Coming Together After a Disaster * Expatriate Tales * Places Named for the Fallen

Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Alexei Navalny * Writing Letters to Political Prisoners * Siberians Protecting Prehistoric Art * Wives Trying to Bring their Men Home * Teachers Trying to Teach * The Orwellian Russian Language of War * Emigré Diaries

Winter 2024

Winter 2024

Miltaristic camp for youth * Survival Russian * War on Environmentalists * The Legacy of Panel Buildings * Unlikely Pen Pals * Teaching for Russia * Socks for Troops * War Widows * New Books Worth Reading

Fall 2023

Fall 2023

Men who fled the draft * New Russian language memes * How school is changing * A bike ride around the Soviet Union * A newspaper that struggles to remain free * An old man and his dog * Books we liked * Monuments being taken down

Summer 2023

Summer 2023

More Last Words * Escaping from Russia to Avoid the Draft * Wartime Linguistic Touchpoints * Russia's War on LGBTQ+ * Talking with Russians on the Train * Life in a Remote Siberian City * The Ukrainian Student Who Became a Symbol of Emancipation for Her Generation * Books We Liked * Telling Statistics

Spring 2023

Spring 2023

The Evolving Language of War * A Defiant Teacher * A Hopeful Priest * A Village Stand-Off * A Trip to Ukraine * Books We Liked * Last Words of Convicted Dissenters

Winter 2023

Winter 2023

Protest by cake * Healing through fish * Propaganda in schools * Sisters in sorrow * Memes of war * Chekhov Becomes Chekhov * Books we love of late * Music as protest * Yashin's last words * Resistance is Fertile

Fall 2022

Fall 2022

A visit to Odesa * The animals that would not be left behind * A village woman grapples with a history of war * The Russian economy * Pianist Marina Yudina * Grappling with one's Russian ancestry * The Dissilusioned * Tatar roots of Russian * Anti-war poems

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Summer 2022

Summer 2022

Russians informing on Russians * Amending the Law to Catch More Dissenters * Why Young Russians Stayed * Russia’s War is an Express Train to Hell * The Tankman and the Sailor * Artists Speaking Out * The Story of One Friendship * The Mightiness of the Russian Language * Chekhov’s Steppe (Bilingual) * Novels and Soviet Children

March/April 2022

March/April 2022

Russia's Mother Theresa * An Unusual Street Musician * A Siberian Hermit * A Trip to the Edge of Russia * Peter the Great vs. Foppishness * How Not to Step in It * Finlandization of Russian * A Forgotten Food Classic * Animals in Opposition

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