The Egyptian Persuasion — foreword

Osip MANDELSTAM The Egyptian Persuasion dates from the period 1926-1931 when Mandelstam found he was unable to write verse and…

War

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not…

An interview with Anna POLITKOVSKAYA (2005) Index on Censorship took advantage of the presence of Russian — and other one-time…

The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in…

In spring this year [1992] I returned from 15 months’ living in Moscow, where I set up the first office…

Tajikistan has had some important dates for its diary since it supported the US-led coalition fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan…

With the rights activist (and astrophysicist) in the early 1980s, at a human rights gathering, in Portugal perhaps. Marjorie wrote…

Two boys stand out of my junior school photograph. One was small, wiry and dry. He was learning to play…

“I do not like rolled up manuscripts. Others are laden with the limnent of time, Like an archangel’s trumpet”. 1…

St. Andrews was established in 1410. It comes as a surprise to realise that it is a place without roots…

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at…

Turkmenistan has been called the Zimbabwe of Central Asia: it is a potentially rich, small country with a very poor…

Those tired of Tony Blair’s Long Goodbye should feel sorry for Uzbekistan. President Islam Karimov’s second term of office ended…

— It was a big mistake. The next morning I went to the park to clear my head, and I…

Sergei AVERINTSEV (1937-2004) The challenge of how to “overcome” a totalitarian past should face every nation with experience of one…