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• The April issue of Soviet Samovar is now out! - April 21, 2012 - 1 comments
• Apparently, there are words I still don’t know in English. Like apron. - March 8, 2012 - 8 comments
• There was probably a KGB file with my name on it - March 7, 2012 - 0 comments
• The loneliness of crossing oceans - March 2, 2012 - 1 comments
• Apparatchiks with typewriters, or, in the Soviet archives - February 28, 2012 - 1 comments
• The Potemkin effect: Colour photos from the black-and-white days - February 12, 2012 - 0 comments
• The Soviet Samovar – February issue is out! - February 8, 2012 - 0 comments
• Soviet Jewry reading assignment - February 6, 2012 - 4 comments
• Not my perestroika: Shades of might have beens - December 15, 2011 - 0 comments
• The Soviet Samovar! First issue! Wednesday! - October 3, 2011 - 0 comments
• Live, in the kitchen, from Moscow - September 26, 2011 - 1 comments
• Hiding out in the ‘burbs - September 21, 2011 - 8 comments
• When all is fleeting anyway, food becomes everything (Immigrant Decor Part 5) - August 4, 2011 - 0 comments
• The weight of an English chesterfield (Immigrant Decor Part 4) - July 27, 2011 - 0 comments
• Hindu gods, the Alberta way (Immigrant Decor Part 3) - July 26, 2011 - 0 comments
• A suitcase full of matroyshkas and salami (Immigrant Decor Part 2) - July 15, 2011 - 1 comments
• The faux Persian rug, crowning glory of every Russian home (Immigrant Decor Part 1) - July 13, 2011 - 2 comments
• Immigrant household decor: Your stories wanted! - June 28, 2011 - 2 comments
• Do Russian and Soviet memorabilia an immigrant make? - June 23, 2011 - 4 comments
• An open letter on so-called parenting privilege - June 18, 2011 - 0 comments
• A Russian primer on making journalists irrelevant - June 9, 2011 - 0 comments
• The Big Jewcy 2011 – I’ve been listified - June 8, 2011 - 0 comments
• On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design - June 6, 2011 - 5 comments
• Tech blogs learn from women’s magazines - May 26, 2011 - 2 comments
• Chernobyl, 25 years and counting - May 23, 2011 - 0 comments
• Outsourcing the Rumour Mill - May 20, 2011 - 0 comments
• Soviet Georgian soup is reclaimed as Shabbat meal - May 9, 2011 - 0 comments
• Monday Links – The Bill Cosby is a genius edition - April 11, 2011 - 0 comments
• Still keeping your coffee in the freezer? Tut, tut - April 10, 2011 - 2 comments
• Monday Links – The some people have real problems and some people have baby carrots edition - April 4, 2011 - 2 comments