For the first time since 2008 Rus­sian fash­ion designer Gosha Rubch­in­skiy presen­ted his run­way show in his home coun­try, on Janu­ary 12, 2017. He chose the small city of Kalin­in­grad, on the Baltic sea. It was the first of a series of shows and events linked to the Rubch­in­skiy Adi­das collaboration.

“Polite fish” is a phe­nomenon and an attrib­ute often met in Asian cul­ture– a situ­ation when two abso­lute oppos­ites are forced to inter­act and in that forced inter­ac­tion show both utmost polite­ness and act with extreme cau­tion.
Russian-Chineese bor­der extends for over 4000 kilometers.

The sur­veil­lance tools are no longer a priv­ilege of national secur­it­ies and cor­por­ate data min­ing. It was only a mat­ter of time for tech­no­logy to develop to a point when it would become avail­able for vir­tu­ally anyone.

Elena Anosova spent 2 months liv­ing and work­ing in three Rus­sian female penal colon­ies, explor­ing the inner world of the inmates based on her own child­hood exper­i­ences of liv­ing in a closed rehab­il­it­a­tion school. The res­ult is a strik­ing series called ‘Sec­tion’ that reveals how being in con­fine­ment and under con­stant sur­veil­lance dis­fig­ures and trau­mat­ize a person.

A com­bin­a­tion of harsh weather con­di­tions, advance­ment of tech­no­logy and gov­ern­ment sub­sidy has helped con­trib­ute to the extinc­tion of some of the very unique and artis­anal pro­fes­sions of this region of the coun­try, pro­fes­sions that were born out of neces­sity and a mix­ture of cul­tures includ­ing Afric­ans brought as slaves, Nat­ives as well as vari­ous migrants, mainly European.

What make this protests really stand out is that there is no affil­i­ation to any known polit­ical or oppos­i­tion move­ment. It is strictly civil ini­ti­at­ive, and the major­ity of demon­strat­ors are teen­agers and stu­dents mobil­ized through social media.

Foun­ded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova, the insti­tu­tion is cur­rently based in a tem­por­ary pavil­ion in Gorky Park cre­ated spe­cific­ally for Gar­age by archi­tect Shi­geru Ban. In June 2015, the Museum will move to its first per­man­ent home — a ground­break­ing renov­a­tion of the fam­ous 1960s Vremena Goda (Sea­sons of the Year) pavil­ion in Gorky Park — designed by Rem Koolhaas.

In Tajikistan, live swirls around wed­dings. In the coun­try, where 47.2% live below the poverty threshold, and 80% of the employ­able pop­u­la­tion work abroad as labour migrants, the amount of money spent on wed­dings per year equals the country’s budget of $2 billion.

Dav­ide Monteleone’s study on iden­tity gradu­ally became the story of a com­prom­ise, one that all the inhab­it­ants of this repub­lic are forced to make with the author­it­ies in return for a bet­ter life.

In rich houses Ser­vice Per­son­nel such as maids, but­lers, cooks and garden­ers have been work­ing at all times. All those pro­fes­sions took their places in world ser­vice industry, but in Rus­sia those pro­fes­sions are still second qual­ity occupations.