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Russia and China want to put a nuclear power plant on the moon

The Space Race 2.0 just went nuclear

Mar 06, 2024

Thom Waite

A new TV series will tell the story of Pussy Riot’s rise to infamy

Based on the memoir of Nadya Tolokonnikova, the show is set dramatise the protest group’s origins and groundbreaking political actions

Dec 06, 2023

Thom Waite

Queendom: an inspiring new doc about a fearless trans artist from Russia

Powerful but at times harrowing, Queendom tells the inspirational story of Russian performance artist Gena Marvin, who discusses her experiences here with Jake Hall

Nov 24, 2023

Jake Hall

Music

Kedr Livansky is the celestial pop star creating her own reality

Fresh off the release of her new EP K-Notes, the singer and producer talks teenage goth eras, Argentinian telenovelas, and why she never left her punk past behind

Music

Jun 23, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova joins Russia’s most wanted list

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant in the wake of the artist’s provocative performance piece, Putin’s Ashes

Mar 30, 2023

Thom Waite

The foreign agent law: why protestors are raving in the streets of Tbilisi

The Georgian government has withdrawn its repressive ‘foreign agent’ law in response to backlash, but demonstrations are set to continue

Mar 09, 2023

Thom Waite

YOUTH: How Anne Imhof’s apocalyptic artwork came to life

Shot days before the outbreak of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the acclaimed artist’s Moscow-set film has become a symbol of freedom, hope, and mourning for lost futures, broadcast worldwide via CIRCA

Feb 13, 2023

Thom Waite

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on casting a spell to kill Putin

The protest collective’s first solo gallery show invites you to don a balaclava and watch magic and activism collide

Jan 27, 2023

Thom Waite

The Doomsday Clock is now the closest to midnight it’s ever been

We are all going to die x

Jan 25, 2023

Serena Smith

Zula Rabikowska, “Norvina”, Nothing But a Curtain

These photos explore gender identity in the ‘shadow of communism’

Zula Rabikowska spent 100 days travelling through former-Soviet countries meeting young people born since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Jan 18, 2023

Madeleine Pollard

TraumaZone: Adam Curtis’s nightmarish study of the Soviet Union’s downfall

The documentarian’s new series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, is a dark and eerily familiar look at the collapse of the Soviet Union

Oct 21, 2022

Diyora Shadijanova

Photographers are selling prints to help children devastated by war

Dust Off is a print sale dedicated to raising money for War Child UK, and includes work from Willy Vanderperre, Walter Pfeiffer and Tim Walker

Oct 12, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

This doc explores love and loss in the ‘depression federation’ of Russia

‘I thought people killing themselves was a normal part of life’: Marusya Syroechkovskaya casts a heartbreaking spell with her film How to Save a Dead Friend, a tale of love, addiction and redemption in Russia