By Ian MARTIN (2018) It was my privilege to work with a great group of committed people at the International…
Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996)
For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the driving forces behind the human rights movement in Russia. His…
Bryusov – Khodasevich
The first time I saw him he was about twenty-four and I was eleven and studying at the gymnasium with…
Aux larmes, Citoyens! (2000)
By Marjorie FARQUHARSON There is a new way of popping the question in France since 15 November. ‘Sign a Solidarity…
Happy Times
Marjorie was born in Glasgow on the 11 August 1953, one of Nellie Milne and Alexander Farquharson’s three children. When…
Early Poems (selection)
LESSONS At each opportunity,You become lost in your own plain thought and fantasies;Either listening to the melting rain outsideOr mildly…
Suffering Russia & the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1997)
I recently spent time in a Moscow hospital. The medicine was plentiful, the care round-the-clock, and as a foreigner I…
Blaze and Symmetry (2008)
President Putin has hinted at an ‘asymmetrical’ response if the USA stations part of its Ballistic Missile Defence Network in…
Miss Delacroix’s Bow (story)
I first noticed there was something wrong when I was coming back from a walk along the Ladebraes. I had…
“The Weather Station”
By Marjorie FARQUHARSON Well, I really liked Igor Anatolievich. He could read a cloud formation as clearly as the expression…
The Freight and the Groove (2000)
When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years some spent as prisoners in previous decades…
Marjorie 