While Russia’s political history has been tumultuous and unpredictable, one thing has remained an unfaltering constant: Russians are good at hockey. While Brezhnev dealt with the fiasco that was the Afghan War, Viktor Tikhonov led the Soviet Union’s national ice hockey team (Сборная СССР по хоккею с шайбой) to victory, after victory, after victory. Winning […]
Ice hockey is a sport defined by speed, impact, and precision. Players must aggressively fight for position at breakneck pace in a game as physically punishing as it is technically demanding. Injuries are an unfortunate but expected part of the sport, and no position is more vulnerable than that of the goaltender. Tasked with stopping […]
Shanson, especially as known in Russia, is full of contradictions and notoriously hard to define. Encompassing a range of musical styles, it incorporates bardic tradition and pop, with influences from rock, jazz, Slavic and gypsy folk traditions, vaudeville, cabaret, and “romance” – a Tsarist-era genre that loosely evolved from folk and opera. An important part […]
