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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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