Michele A. Berdy

1 month ago | themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy

In “Our Dear Friends in Moscow. The Inside Story of a Broken Generation,” journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov set out to understand how some of their fellow journalists in Russia came to accept wholeheartedly the actions of Vladimir Putin’s government. Their friends are not uneducated Russians with no access to anything but official Russian government information.

1 month ago | themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy

Benjamin Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the award-winning books, “Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia” and “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement.” The Moscow Times spoke to him about “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause,” which has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize.

2 months 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.

Mar 11, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy

Since 2007 Artdocfest has been celebrating the art of documentary filmmaking, first in Moscow and then, when the Russian authorities began to disrupt the festivals, in Riga. Every year dozens of films from or about Russia and Ukraine, Central Asia, the Baltic States and Eastern and Central Europe are shown to tens of thousands of viewers in a week-long film lover’s fest that begins every morning and often runs all night.

Dec 8, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy |Delicious Soup

In 1999 Yusuf Ruzimurodov, a journalist, human rights activist and dissident, was arrested by the authorities in Uzbekistan for criticizing President Islam Karimov and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But his term was extended twice, and in the end he spent 19 years in prison – the longest prison sentence served by any journalist in the region for his professional activities.