Readers may be interested to know about the Mennonite Centre at Molochansk in south eastern Ukraine. Based in a restored former Mennonite Girls’ School (Maedchenschule) building, the Centre is engaged in humanitarian and social development work to improve the...
Zarathustra is a (very) fat ginger cat who is owned (or is it the other way round?) by Russian artist Svetlana Petrova. Svetlana has become known for her online artworks which feature paintings by famous artists, embellished by the...
By Pat Stewart On Saturday, March 15, two weeks after Russian forces began to take control of key locations in Crimea and one day before the Crimean referendum, there was a peace march in Moscow. According to the BBC,...
This is nothing in particular to do with Russia, but we love this music video by Quaker filmmaker Ben Guaraldi, with Friends (mostly from Massachusetts), shot on location at Framingham Friends Meeting, Homer’s Cause, and the Middlesex Fells. A...
Our fellow F/friends, Friends International Library, have just completed a second edition of Power of Goodness: Stories of Nonviolence and Reconciliation. This is a three-language edition in Russian, Chechen and English of stories showing love and kindness in action. ...
Peter Dyson (FHM Board member) writes about a visit in June 2013 to St Petersburg by Mahogany Opera, who performed all three of Benjamin Britten’s Church Parables. The Return of the Prodigal Son was performed in the magnificent Hermitage...
By Roswitha Jarman Roswitha is a Quaker who worked in Moscow in the 1990s and helped to set up Friends House Moscow. She also worked in Chechnya promoting peace and reconciliation. In May 2013 she returned after a 10...
From Pat Stewart: Here is a hilarious music video, “Oil”, directed by Marat Adel’shin with DJs Smash, Vengerov and Bobina. Dear Friends, in case you had not noticed, we are all dancing to this tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EucLgHzuZaw
Russia’s roads are notorious for their potholes. But in Yekaterinburg, street artists found a novel way of grabbing the politicians’ attention. On the night of 23-24 July, potholed streets were turned into caricatures of city officials – with the...
President Putin apparently has a taste for luxury watches – some of which he has given away (to a Siberian shepherd, and to a factory worker), or tossed into the wet cement of a construction site. Each of these...