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Samantha Berkhead

Amsterdam, Moscow

Senior Editor at The Moscow Times

Editor-in-chief @MoscowTimes | 🖋 @thetimes | 🪆

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  • Why the Families of Russia’s Regional Elites Still Covet Life in the West

    2 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Moscow Times’ Regions Calling newsletter, where our reporters examine key trends and events shaping life and politics in Russia’s regions. This week, MT’s editor-in-chief Samantha Berkhead and reporter Pyotr Kozlov examine how Russian regional elites’ penchant for educating their children in the West never really ended after the invasion of Ukraine. Subscribe here so you never miss an issue.

  • ‘Boris Godunov’: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Titanic Indictment of the Russia He Loves

    2 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead

    AMSTERDAM — A tsar, who rose to the throne through the murder of a young heir, is asked to stay in power by an impoverished populace for the sake of their nation’s stability. Yet haunted by the ghosts of his past, he descends into paranoid madness as a pretender to the throne marches on Moscow.

  • Exiled Electronic Duo AIGEL Crashes the Dancefloor With ‘Killer Qız’

    2 months ago | themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead

    It’s murder on the dancefloor. In the propulsive opening track to exiled electronic duo AIGEL’s new album, vocalist Aigel Gaisina inhabits the role of a DJ whose beats kill a “fool old man” on the dancefloor for “drinking my people’s blood.”“Dirty job, dirty cash, dirty stuff / Though my soul is pure,” she intones.

  • Alla Gutnikova: ‘Dictatorships End, Walls Fall and Prisons Burn’

    Mar 28, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead

    LONDON — Alla Gutnikova’s story reflects Russia’s descent into repression in recent years. As a university student, she became politically active while protesting in support of jailed journalist Ivan Golunov and protesters jailed for rallying for free elections in the summer of 2019.

  • Freed U.S.-Russian Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva: ‘Our Work Right Now Is to Be a Witness to History’

    Nov 21, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Samantha Berkhead

    Alsu Kurmasheva, a longtime journalist for the U.S.-funded RFE/RL news outlet’s Tatar-Bashkir service, became the second U.S. journalist to be jailed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when she was detained in October 2023. The dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who lives in Prague, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in July on charges of spreading “false information” about the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine that her family and employer denied. Just weeks later on Aug.

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Samantha Berkhead
Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead
5 Jun 25

The head of a Berlin gallery that also exhibits anti-war artists tells me it was his understanding that the Paris gallery never tried to hide the fact that Liza was working there https://t.co/immASZp0Rb

Samantha Berkhead
Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead
4 Jun 25

RT @MoscowTimes: The Moscow Times examined new footage released by Ukraine's Security Service, showing a range of aircraft targeted across…

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Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead
31 May 25

RT @MoscowTimes: As Russian soldiers keep dying in the war, many military wives and mothers are careful to differentiate their criticism of…