"Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--

Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty militar

Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Summary & Analysis Preview: Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chel

"Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and