When I got my invitation to DCTV Firehouse’s screening of the CNN Documentary, Navalny, the name didn’t ring a bell. After a brief Google search of who Alexei Navalny was, I still wasn’t sure if I’d be in the theater struggling to follow along or on the edge of my seat desperate for more.
Russia
Boris Ivanov’s searing documentary exposes the collateral damage left in the wake of the Russian political game.
Performance Review: Burning Doors by Belarus Free Theater at La MaMA NYC
Burning Doors features Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and runs until October 22nd.
Review: Akunin’s ‘Hamlet. A Version’ Now Playing at Theatre at St. Clements
Putin Critic and writer Boris Akunin writes Hamlet. A Version, directed by Irina Gachechiladze and translated by Ileana Alexandra Orlich. On now at Theatre at St. Clements.
A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria’s Idlib province, a rebel-held area, on Monday, killing all five people in the helicopter.
The Russian track and field team lost a legal battle on Thursday in which they sought the right to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
According to a leaked U.S. proposal, the United States will offer Russia a military pact against the Islamic State and al-Qaida in Syria.