Russia Now and Then

Monica Attard spent 28 years at the ABC, working across radio and television. She was the ABC’s Russia correspondent between 1989 and 1994 and again between 2003 and 2005. She is the author of Russia, Which Way Paradise? 

Alhierd Bacharevič (Альгерд Бахарэвіч) is a Belarusian writer. Born in 1975 in Minsk. Author of several books of fiction, essays and poetry. His novels and collections of essays have been translated into English, German, French, Polish and Russian. His magnum opus, the novel Dogs of Europe, is banned in Belarus. This novel was staged in London and Paris by the Belarusian Free Theater and in Poland by the Belarusian theater in exile, Kupalaucy. The novel Alindarka's Children was released in 2022 in the USA. He is author of the open Letter to Ukraine (2022) and of the essay Fascism as a memory (2020) translated into many languages. Together with his wife, poet Julia Cimafiejeva he took part in mass protests in Belarus in 2020. Now he lives in exile.

Sheila Fitzpatrick is a historian of modern Russia. Her recent books include On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, Mischka’s War, White Russians, A Spy in the Archives and My Father's Daughter. Her latest book is The Shortest History of the Soviet Union.  

Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a Fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He worked for 12 years as a British foreign correspondent, reporting from South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His books include Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (with John Hulsman), Pakistan: A Hard Country, and most recently, Climate Change and the Nation State.