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...