Lost for words: Dublin-born artist Jenny Brady explores the world of interpretation
Watching The Glass Booth we discover the subtle, complex and fascinating interplay of power and trust that mediating language orally involves
Soviet Union
Is Ireland ready for drab Soviet-style apartment blocks?
Government’s new apartment standards are so low they resemble the old Soviet blocks. And while more units may result, they won’t house more people
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich
The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism
Is Russia’s war-driven economy approaching its 1989 moment?
With the Ukraine war, Putin might have backed himself into an economic cul-de-sac
‘There’s a menace, an edge to life in America that wasn’t there before. And the possibility of dark stuff’
Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK
Convicted Real IRA bomber speaks at event marking 80th anniversary of VE Day
At a gathering in Co Meath, John Connolly addressed those whose ancestors from the Soviet Union helped defeat Nazi Germany
One Man in His Time by NM Borodin: Powerful memoir of horror after Russia’s October 1917 revolution
Unsparing depiction of life under the brutal purges of Josef Stalin’s totalitarian rule
Joshua Oppenheimer on shooting his postapocalyptic film The End in Ireland: ‘How would you tell your story to your grandchildren?’
The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentaries
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Dutch journalist Michel Krielaars infuses a bleak subject with verve
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War – A fascinating chronicle of postwar resettlement
Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War
Mikhail Baryshnikov: ‘I know the other side of the coin. I was the son of an occupier’
In 1974, ballet star Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He talks about his cloak-and-dagger escape, war in Ukraine and Russian oppression
To Run the World by Sergey Radchenko: New insights on USSR’s approach to the Cold War
Making extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history
The Avant-Gardists by Sjeng Scheijen: the far-from-seamless convergence of the aesthetic with the political in Soviet Russia
Malevich, Kandinksy, Tatlin, Popova and others threw themselves into the revolution with the commitment of a Lenin or Trotsky
Translated fiction: coming of age in Trieste, tales from 19th century Brittany, and life in a post-Soviet world
Reviewing works by Diego Marani, François-Marie Luzel, María Bastarós, Sasha Salzmann and Anna Stern
Stop referring to EU as a ‘bloc’ – this is divisive linguistic rot imported from Britain
European Union’s approach to an issue such as Gaza has been characterised more by member state division than unity
Islamic State terror group draws half its recruits from tiny Tajikistan
Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people
Fintan O’Toole: Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday allows us to reflect on a dark century
Fintan O’Toole: The centenarian embodies, perhaps more than anyone else, the failure of the United States to learn the moral lessons of the 20th century’s most catastrophic depravities
China insists it respects sovereignty of ex-Soviet states after ambassador casts doubt
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the remarks were ‘unacceptable’
‘Totally unacceptable’: outrage over Chinese ambassador’s dismissal of ex-Soviet statehood
‘China has sided with Russia, politically’ says Lithuanian foreign minister
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History review - Deep insights into horror warn against glibness of ‘never again’
Dan Stone tracks across history and geography to unsettle easy, congratulatory cliches about anti-Semitism. He mines the shameful mass complexity of a humanity that actively permitted the Holocaust to happen
The Irish Times view on the world of Derry Girls: a holiday from history
Lisa McGee’s show paid homage to a time when the music was better, the politics were more hopeful and the clothes were, well, different
Russian embassy queries Taoiseach’s praise of Ukrainian nationalism
Legation critical of extremism personified by fascist collaborators during second World War
ANC’s refusal to condemn Russia set to become election issue
Critics point to commercial links as one reason for silence on Putin’s war in Ukraine
For once Sweden follows Finland’s lead
Shock over Ukraine has seen decades-old Swedish scepticism about Nato melt away
Nato accession: Turkey in talks with Finns and Swedes over ‘outrageous’ PKK stance
Erdogan has said it is not yet possible for Turkey to back Finnish and Swedish entry to alliance
Years of work ahead to hold Russia to account for atrocities it calls ‘fake’
Villager tells how her husband and adult son were gunned down as they drove to hospital
Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles
Victory Day articles accuse Putin of waging ‘bloodiest war of 21st century’
Putin tells second World War Victory Day event ‘West was preparing to invade’ homeland
Russian president addresses servicemen on 77th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany
Russians at Meath Victory Day rally say they do not back Ukraine war
Commemorative gathering claims to be focused on relatives lost in WWII
War in Ukraine: Sixty feared dead after Russian bombing of school in Luhansk
G7 leaders to hold call with Zelenskiy in show of unity before Victory Day events in Moscow
All women, children and elderly evacuated from Mariupol – Ukraine
Efforts under way to save Ukrainian fighters trapped inside, Zelenskiy says
Russian crackdown: Why it takes tremendous courage to protest
Newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov is a rare voice speaking out against Putin’s ‘purpose-built, repressive system’
‘Lack of medication’ as Russia destroys nearly 400 hospitals and medical centres
Fresh effort to evacuate Mariupol civilians has begun as EU to amend oil embargo
Brittney Griner could be the last American basketball star in Russia
US government says player is wrongfully detained in Russia for drug charges
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