... is eternal… 19 THE DEATH OF RUSSIAN CINEMA, OR SOCHI: RUSSIA’S LAST RESORT Nancy Condee As they say in Russian at this point, “you should drink less.” These songs—perky, insistent, ... Capturing the extremes and the contradictions of contemporary Russian life, the Cathedral is a gaudy glorification of the spiritual, a profane monument to the sacred, a post-Soviet version of its ... Some sanatoria 17 names were straightforward enough: the Lenin, the Pravda, the Metallurg, the Dawn, the Spark, the Aurora. Others were somewhat ominous: the Frunze, named after the People’s...