I’m taking the work off-line, but still hope to wrap it up in the next year

Oligarchs and senior officials are dropping like flies

Political reading of Topi were easy enough to make when the show first aired, but now the series looks like a diagnosis

It’s a world is one in which things happen to people, in which inexplicable violence is always just beyond our vision

Cargo 200 comes as close as possible to creating a film as if from a non-human perspective

The 1990s were concerned less with death and dying than with murder and corpses

Necropolitics in Russia represents a choice made by the powerful in relation to the powerless

The Nord-Ost hostage drama had a huge symbolic resonance

Rescue was not the top priority

Was Putin behind the apartment 1999 bombings? How should I know?

Putinism seems likely to be defined, retroactively by its final form, one that will be "finished" (i.e, perfected) because it has finished (i.e., ended)

Putin's face is a death mask taken from a still-living body

Putinism îs not been about developing a thicker skin

Sputnik's USSR was in the process of losing itself even before perestroika began

Unlike Alien, Sputnik takes its metaphorical power from adoption rather than reproduction

Sputnik has come to bury the Soviet space program, not to save it

Branded has all the hallmarks of hilariously terrible B-movies

Attraction’s political themes are not exactly delivered with the lightest of touches

Sinyavsky exploits the alien metaphor by making his narrator an exotic plant that can barely survive in a Soviet communal apartment.

Why don’t more extraterrestrials come to Russia?