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The deathly malaise that’s crippling Russia

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

Kilometer 101 Maxim Osipov, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming and Nicholas Pasternak Slater

NYRB Classics, pp.256, 14.99

Now is a difficult time to empathise with Russians – which is why we need Maxim Osipov. We need him to bring alive to us what it means to live in Putin’s Russia – how the system finds ways to crush all but a very few. Even more, we need him to remind us of the kaleidoscope of qualities that a country like Russia inevitably contains – the humanity and generosity as well as the stupidity and cruelty.

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