Today’s New York Times includes an op-ed piece about Russian president-to-be Dmitrii Medvedev, “Russia’s Last Hope,” by novelist and essayist Victor Erofeyev.
Erofeyev may be best known to American readers of periodicals for “Dirty Words,” a New Yorker piece about Russian swearing that’s only available online in a rather piquant abstract. I last mentioned Erofeyev in this December 2007 posting about Russian politics and culture.
Today’s Times, by the way, contains another article about Russia: “Russia Is Luring Back NHL Stars.”
