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Arkady Ostrovsky

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Russian Federation

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Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born, British journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist. Prior to this role, he was Moscow correspondent based in Moscow. He joined the paper in March 2007 after 10 years with the Financial Times where he had spells as a Moscow Correspondent, International Capital Markets reporter and features writer for the Arts and Books section of the paper and its weekend magazine. As the FT‘s Moscow correspondent he covered Russian politics and business, including the Yukos Affair, the resurgence of Russia’s Security Services, Gazprom, Media and Culture. At The Economist, Arkady also writes about Ukraine, Georgia and other former ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 1,875 ratings · 231 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stemmen fra Ukraina by Volodymyr Zelensky, Gunnar Nyquist (Translator), Arkady Ostrovsky (Foreword) 4.61 avg rating — 1,710 ratings — published 2022 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War 4.01 avg rating — 1,894 ratings — published 2015 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Idle conversations around a kitchen table among the liberal intelligentsia all too often were a substitute for real action or work; it gave them relief, but yielded few results. It created a comfortable cocoon, but also increased the intelligentsia's isolation from the rest of the country”
― Arkady Ostrovsky

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“decency.”’14 Decency and common”
― Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

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“Above all, [Averintsev] argued, do not distort reality. Facing the past was one thing; reinventing it was quite another. “Christ tells people to return from the imagined world to reality and from the imagined self to one’s actual self. A return to God is possible from any real place - however shameful and disgusting, but not from an imagined one - because we are not there. An imagined self in an imagined world cannot start a journey toward God.”
― Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

tags: communism, fascism, history, russia

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