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Howard Amos

Russia

Writer at Freelance

Mostly Russia. Editor @CEIP_Politika and author @BloomsburyBooks.

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy |Howard Amos |Lucy Ash |Alexei Navalny

    Pushkin House has announced the short list for this year’s Book Prize.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Howard Amos |Nicola Alexandrou |Hattie Moir |Ellie Bury

    At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Howard Amos

    In the summer of 2007, I joined a group of 30 Russian and English students to work on a month-long summer camp at a state orphanage for mentally and physically disabled children in the Pskov region, south of St Petersburg. We lived in a house nearby, or in tents pitched in the garden. Every day, we walked up to the orphanage to put on developmental activities, sporting events, solve puzzles, play games, stage shows and go on camping trips.

  • Oct 10, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Howard Amos

    The journalist Sarah Rainsford was in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in the early hours of the morning on Feb. 24, 2022, firing a barrage of missiles at targets across the country and sending columns of tanks across the border. As she tried to brush her teeth with shaking hands amid the sound of distant explosions, Rainsford felt a burgeoning sense of shame. Rainsford’s connection with Russia went beyond the professional.

  • Jul 30, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Howard Amos

    A champion snowboarder didn’t want to bite the hand that fed her, but Moscow’s attack on Ukraine strengthened her moral conviction Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 2018, snowboarder Alena Zavarzina was with a group of Russian athletes at the Sports Ministry in Moscow. It was a few days before their departure for the Winter Olympics in South Korea. They were driven out of the city to one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences, where they were to meet the Russian leader.

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Howard Amos
Howard Amos @howardamos
10 Apr 25

RT @postsocialismus: Inside Russia’s ‘Micro-Politics’: Ethnographer Jeremy Morris on the Quiet Resilience of Daily Life https://t.co/4ox7tP…

Howard Amos
Howard Amos @howardamos
10 Apr 25

RT @mediazona_en: Moscow prosecutors have begun filing administrative charges against people accused of collaborating with the Carnegie End…

Howard Amos
Howard Amos @howardamos
10 Apr 25

RT @MoscowTimes: Pushkin House has just announced its short list for their annual Book Prize. Head to your bookstores: https://t.co/xeawJcG…