{"id":9028,"date":"2021-01-15T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=150770"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:42:36","slug":"the-week-in-russia-risks-and-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/the-week-in-russia-risks-and-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week In Russia: Risks And Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"
Returns can be a big deal in Russia, in art and in life.<\/p>\n
In art, there’s unparalleled Soviet-era author Andrei Platonov’s haunting story The Return, and Andrei Zvyaginstev’s 2003 movie<\/a><\/strong> with the same title — a nerve-wracking tale of two young brothers on a trip with their “remote, impossible to please, harshly judgmental and violently punishing father,” who has abruptly returned after a long absence: What could go wrong?<\/p>\n Much earlier, there was Ilya Repin’s 1880s painting They Did Not Expect Him<\/a><\/strong>, which shows a man striding into a room to the surprise of its occupants — including a boy who seems joyful and adults who look markedly less so — and is said to represent an anti-government revolutionary returning home from exile.<\/p>\n