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Is Ukraine next?

Andrey Kurkov — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:11:59 GMT

With Georgia in pieces, Ukraine could be the next to fall to Russia's territorial ambition, separatist sentiment and economic realities. Andrey Kurkov reports

The death of Solzhenitsyn

Andrey Kurkov — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:58:56 GMT

The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on how the author of the Gulag Archipelago, who related the terrible truth about Soviet totalitarianism, outlived his era to become something of a living monument to Russia's past

On top of the world

Andrey Kurkov — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Russians aren't the only migrants to find a welcome in Arctic Norway

Secrets of the state

Andrey Kurkov — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Orlando Figes Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 740pp, �25

Secrets and lies

Andrey Kurkov — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak Viking, 368pp, �16.99

Russian rally

Andrey Kurkov — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Was it the car or the country? The Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov travelled from St Petersburg to Ekaterinburg and found that the landscape changes rapidly when you're driving a Mercedes

Dictators: Dreaming of the USSR

Andrey Kurkov — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Andrey Kurkov on Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus

NS Special Report - The eternal winter

Andrey Kurkov — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The fate of thousands was decided by a Soviet official with a pair of compasses. The renowned Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov visits Chernobyl two decades after the world�s worst nuclear disaster

Mushrooms of freedom

Andrey Kurkov — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT

An exclusive short story by Andrey Kurkov