Tatiana Shcherbina

Tatiana Shcherbina is a widely-translated Russian poet. Her first five collections of poems,and a novel, appeared in samizdat, before her work started being published by the Soviet press in 1989. She worked for Radio Liberty in Munich and Paris 1992-7, and speaks fluent French. She has lived in Moscow since 1997.

Forbidden Art verdict: they're in mourning for Soviet censorship

On 12 July, the judge found Andrei Erofeev and Yurii Samodurov, organisers of the exhibition Forbidden Art – 2006, guilty of inciting hatred and enmity, and insulting human dignity. Samodurov was fined 200,000 roubles, and Erofeev 150,000 (some $12,000 in all). But they have not been sent to priso

By Tatiana Shcherbina

/ 15 Jul 2010

Stalin – a hero for our time

The myth of Russia’s beautiful past has gripped the popular imagination, thanks to state propaganda, the poet Tatiana Shcherbina laments. Stalin is the nation’s hero, heir to the Tsars. Russia is once again ‘encircled by enemies’ and the people’s list of those who ought to be shot grows longer dai

By Tatiana Shcherbina

/ 13 Nov 2009

Russian eye on the Chinese

It's the Chinese and the Russians that take their holidays on the island of Hainan- no one else. The terror of finding yourself in an impenetrable world of

By Tatiana Shcherbina

/ 6 Feb 2009

America through Russian eyes

I'm flying to New York. On the immigration cards they hand out one of the questions is about what you're bringing into the USA and what

By Tatiana Shcherbina

/ 15 Dec 2008