Screenshot from The School of Life YouTube channel. One area where Russia has firmly established its soft power since the 19th century is literature. Authors such as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, poets including Pushkin, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Brodsky are widely read, translated, studied across the globe. They often become the symbols of Russian culture. But this also makes them a target as calls for cancelling Russian culture multiply as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is nearing 100 days. Global Voices spoke to Ani Kokobobo, a scholar of Russian literature and culture who teaches at the Depa…
