Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Jun 17, 2024 | thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina

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Jan 17, 2024 | thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina

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Aug 21, 2023 | thenation.com | Tariq Kenney-Shawa |Theia Chatelle |Sarang Shidore |Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Politics / Washington’s ability to pressure Israel using money has long since disappeared. Progressives need to aim much higher. Ad PolicyFor decades, unconditional support of Israel represented a rare source of elite consensus in US politics. That era is coming to an end.

Aug 17, 2023 | thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina |Lisa M. Corrigan |Michael Massing |Chris Lehmann

Moscow, Russia—I will never forget the evening after the August coup in Moscow. The people around the White House, who spent three days in the “living ring” of defenders of the young Russian democracy, were beautiful. Never since have I seen so many soulful people together. They were very different people, students, aspiring entrepreneurs, workers, nurses, professors, Muscovites and those who came from other regions of the country. Most of them were young.

May 18, 2023 | thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina |Mychal Denzel Smith

Thirty-two years ago, in the spring of 1991, I first came to New York, to attend the Glasnost in Two Cultures conference of women writers in Russia and North America. It was my first real trip abroad. Going to America at the time was like going to the moon for Soviet people. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis. The flight itself took almost a day, with stops in Ireland and Newfoundland.