Index

   Kiev, Moscow and Beyond

04 Dos Kind der Sage ist das Brett 
   (The Saw’s Child is the Board)
   Yves Netzhammer

06 “Tear Off the Masks!"
   Why Did Putin Lie About Crimea?
   Stephen Holmes, Ivan Krastev

11 Tightrope
   Taus Makhacheva

16 Those Who Meandered Through the Surf 
   Odessa, ca. 1981-1983 
   Yuri Leiderman

19 Odessa. Fragment 205
   Yuri Leiderman. Andrey Silvestrov	

22 Real Socialism Vanquished?
   Owen Hatherley and Agata Pyzik discuss various aspects of 
   post-communist history, politics and art

28 The Demolition of the Russian Monument at Ayastefanos 
   Asli Çavuşoğlu

30 Struggling Against Icons
   The Elimination of Soviet Monumental Art from
   Ukraine’s Public Realm 
   Yevgen Nikiforov

34 “Everything Is PR”
   How Peter Pomerantsev portrays the new Russia 
   Marci Shore

39 Our Common Struggle
   Russia, Ukraine and the Role of the 
   International Artistic Community 
   Haim Sokol

42 Playing at Politics, Learning to Speak
   Documentary Theater by Kyiv’s TanzLaboratorium Experiment 
   with Forms of Commonality 
   Larissa Babij

46 Unanswered Questions
   An Interview with the Curators of the Kiev Biennale 
   that Never Was 
   Olga Jitlina

48 Credits