U.S.S.R.

Leonid Sokov's Cocktails and 500 Cocks

On the artist's dissident mash-ups

Uzbek, You Bet, at Nargis Cafe

Grab your post-Soviet bib in Brooklyn

7 Best Things To Eat at Elza Fancy Foods

Kuksu is a noodle soup whose name means "noodle soup" in Korean. This week Counter Culture rolls into one of the city's most unique restaurants, Elza Fancy Foods. The menu represents the Uzbek-Korean-Russian cooking of Uzbekistan's Korean population. Much of the food is cheap, fascinating, and del ... More >>

Mutton Eggs. Ever Tried 'Em?

Wait a minute. Do geriatric sheep lay eggs? A few nights ago, some friends were sitting around Kavkaz, a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue specializing in the food of the Caucasus (that's a region in the former Soviet Union, not an electoral process), when we spied an unusual dish on the menu styl ... More >>

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded; Protests in Russia; Hollywood Gunman

​Three women received the Nobel Peace Prize today at a ceremony in Oslo. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, social worker Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkul Karman were all "chosen for their non-violent struggle against injustice, sexual violence and repression." ... More >>

In Praise of Heirloom Apples: the Golden Russet

Dating to 1849, the Golden Russet is a real New York apple. Everyone has a favorite apple or two. Kids love Red Delicious for their sugary flavor and bright red color. Gourmands crave Granny Smiths because they have hard, tart flesh and can be used to make crisps that retain their apple-y texture. ... More >>

'Tune in Screening: Psychedelic Moving Images From Socialist Yugoslavia 1966-1976'

Cold War films of desperate abandon

Where Can I Get Turkish-Style Bureks?

The boureka at Gazala Place, with a side of babaganoush​A Reader Asks: Where can I get a Turkish burek? Not the little finger-shaped sigara bureka, but the kind my relatives in Turkey made -- little triangular ones made with filo dough. Dear Reader: That's a good question. Throughout the Balk ... More >>

The Good Old Days: Tales From the Golden Age and "Ostalgia"

'Ostalgia': A Walk Around the Bloc

The New Museum looks back at life during Communism

A Sixth Part of the World (A Kino-Eye Race around the USSR)

Turning Performance Inside Out at MOMA's Documentary Fortnight

Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador, dressed like a Wall Street titan

​Anatoly Dobrynin, the cold-war era ambassador from the Soviet Union to Washington, dead this week at 90, loved American culture, they are saying this morning. Oh yes he did. The spring of 1962, newly arrived in town, he hosted a delegation of American Quakers. Worried about nuclear bombs, the ... More >>

Senate GOP, Dem Leaders Unite to Oppose Paterson's "Soviet" Deficit Plan

Maybe by scaling back his demand for over $600 million in cuts to school aid by half was the fatal sign of weakness that invited the counterattack, but the state senators who have been remarkably slow about trimming the budget united against Paterson with great speed. Democratic leader John Sampson ... More >>

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Chicken Tabaka at Kebeer in Brighton Beach

​ Crisp, greasy, garlicky, and resting counterintuitively in a pool of broth--chicken tabaka is the pride of Georgian cooking. ​How apropos that fried chicken should be the centerpiece of the cooking of both Georgias. Chicken tabaka--sometimes facetiously called "road kill" chicken--fea ... More >>

Appalling Facts Speak For Fatal Promises

Live: Paul McCartney Lets It Be (and/or Lives and Lets Die) at Not-Shea-Stadium

No Billie Joel cameo this time, which is fine, fine, fine Paul McCartney Citi Field Tuesday, July 21 I'd like to publicly thank the usher in section 314 for physically blocking my path to the bathroom during the opening strains of "Live and Let Die" because he didn't want me to miss the firewor ... More >>

Studies in Crap and the USSR's Ministry of Health Love Themselves Some Gently NSFW Socialized Medicine!

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Public Health and Social Security in the USSRAuthor: Either an upbeat cadre of Soviet prop ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Graham Rayman has been following the "Fight Club" cooked up by Rikers Island guards for a couple of years, and the Bronx D.A. has started dishing out charges. Inmates used and rewarded as enforcers, beatings arranged so as not to leave marks, victims intimidated into silence (and a few killed) -- t ... More >>

Cargo 200 an Unflinching, Quasi-Comedic Portrait of 1984 Russia

U.N. (But Not the U.S.) Comes Out Big for Gay Rights

Anti-Communist Polemic The Soviet Story Cuts and Pastes from History

Cindy Bernard: 'Silent Key'

The Singing Revolution

Letting It All Go

A Bulgarian dance-theater group excavates the inner depths

Artists' Paradise

Time for the NFL Payoffs!

Illicit Cherry For Sale on the Dark Side of the Web, We're Not Telling Where

The Pope's CIA File

New released papers show link between church, spooks against Soviet Union

Film

Theater

Gipper Gore

Responses to the Voice's coverage of Ronald Reagan's death

Horoscope

Going Stag

The Lost, Sweaty World of Men's Pulp

Great Gatsby Dumplings

Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes

Soviet Re-Union

Russian Fast Food Comes to Gravesend

Mao Mix

Nation

The Mayor of Little Afghanistan

A Local Face in the Effort to Form an Interim Government in Afghanistan

Gas Peddled

Exaggerating the Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat

The New Terrorism

How the Cold War and Its Aftermath Fueled Islamic Militancy

Time on Our Hands

Crocked

Moose in a Noose

Master of Mugham

The Russian Is Coming, Percussion Is Coming!

The Russian Is Coming, Percussion Is Coming!

U.K. Rappers and Their Reds

Heroic Comrades, Meet the Common Man

Dutched by an Angel

Children of Chernobyl

Cubans Continue to Treat Victims of a Nuclear Disaster