Alexander Nazaryan is a writer and teacher living in Brooklyn. He is writing a novel about Russian immigrants in New York.

Alexander Nazaryan's Salon stories

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008 09:00 PDT

The man who shook the Kremlin

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
Monday, Jul 2, 2007 03:43 PDT

"A Russian Diary"

A posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia.

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