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Russia: Bringing the World Not Only Military Interventions, But Also Poetry


Russia is a land of great literature — of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Akhmatova. This truth, that we all learned in high school, has recently been reconfirmed in a startling and compelling manner. For it is only in Russia that a highly-placed political figure can address the public with a lyric poem, as did Ms. Maria Zakharova, the official spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on March 30. As a scholar trained in literary studies and a translator of contemporary Russian poetry, I dedicate this post to a translation (below) of Zakharova’s historic and startling achievement in politico-poetical …read more

Source: The Huffington Post

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