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Category: New Age in Russia

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Rowboat Diplomacy

Author: John Middleton The following article recounts a Russian-American episode of citizen diplomacy, which, unlike other examples of late 20th-century interaction between citizens, interacted with the military of the nascent Russian Federation and...

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“The Mystery of Childbirth”: Esoteric Practices of the Late and Post-Soviet Home-Birth Movement

Author: Anna Ozhiganova “Babies-dolphins” swimming freely underwater, “babies-psychics” (Russian: mladentsy-sensitivy) possessing paranormal capacities; women giving birth underwater in bathtubs or portable pools at home, and in the sea; “cold strengthening” of pregnant...