Russian women today suffer from split personalities, suggests Elena Chinyaeva. They identify ‘housewife’ as the ideal while simultaneously admitting that, in reality, they want other options. Meanwhile, ‘career woman’ connotes a sad, lonely spinster, and ‘feminist’ remains a dirty word by Elena Chinyaeva MOSCOW-In a recent issue of the English-language Moscow newspaper, the eXile, Eduard Limonov commented on the modern […]

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