Andrey Kurkov

Articles by Andrey Kurkov

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Is Ukraine next?

  • 04 September 2008
  • 16 comments

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

  • 05 August 2008
  • 4 comments

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

  • 03 January 2008
  • 2 comments

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

Secrets of the state

  • 06 December 2007

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

Secrets and lies

  • 02 August 2007

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

Russian rally

  • 08 January 2007

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

  • 04 September 2006

Andrey Kurkov on Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus

NS Special Report - The eternal winter

  • 17 April 2006

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

  • 19 December 2005

An exclusive short story by Andrey Kurkov

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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