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Wind from the East: Theremin and Piano
A concert of Russian and Japanese music for theremin and piano.
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ONRS hosts talks, screenings, concerts and socials throughout the year at Oxford and beyond. All are welcome.
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30+Events hosted
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40+Speakers and performers
4Years at Oxford
Articles and interviews
From the ONRS journal
Interviews, essays and reflections from ONRS events, speakers and the wider cultural programme.
Building the ONRS website: a technical postmortem
How we built a bilingual editorial website using Notion as a CMS, Astro as the renderer, and Cloudflare Pages for hosting — and what we would do differently next time.
The samizdat playlist: underground music in Putin's Russia
From banned rappers to encrypted Telegram channels, how Russian musicians are circumventing censorship to reach their audience.
Galina Timchenko on exile, journalism and Russia today
The co-founder of Meduza discusses independent media in exile, the cost of telling the truth and why solidarity matters.
Mapping the diaspora: where did everyone go?
A data-driven look at Russian emigration patterns since 2022 — the top destination countries, demographic breakdowns, and what the numbers miss.
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