Author: Nina Byzantina
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Glamorizing Catastrophe
“We never tried to wake our children up on weekends: the more they sleep, the less they eat.” -Natalia Recently, the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet got flooded with personal photographs from the 1990s. I first took note of them on my own Facebook feed. Some appeared expectedly funny—imagine the hairstyles!—others were nostalgic. Yet what seemed like a…
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Roots of Identity
Contemporary Russian philosopher and Eurasianist Aleksandr Dugin is no stranger to controversy. He’s been labelled by the Western media as “Putin’s brain” as well as vilified as a “fascist,” a claim especially ironic given that Washington is actively supporting self-described fascists in Ukraine to advance its strategic agenda in Eurasia and considering the fact that his book,…
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Being Who We Are
Russian journalist Mikhail Moshkin analyzes the current instability in Ukraine with a special focus on the meaning of traditional Russian identity and statehood. Translated by Nina Kouprianova. The state is the actuality of the ethical Idea. It is ethical mind qua the substantial will manifest and revealed to itself, knowing and thinking itself, accomplishing what…
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What Is to be Done Now?
Russia’s renowned Symbolist poet Alexander Blok (1880-1921) perceived the First World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the resulting Civil War as the apocalyptic unfolding of a new era. The following text from May 13th, 1918, is his response as an artist to these events. Translated by Nina Kouprianova. I must answer a question which concerns…
The Soul of the East 