Asya Partan
Cognoscenti contributor
Asya Partan is a Moscow-born, Boston-based writer whose work explores identity and multiculturalism. She holds a Master of Science in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and is enrolled in a MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College.
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For Ukrainians, it's been 1,000-plus days of life underground
Americans are grappling with the kind of humiliation-by-association that Putin has inspired in countless Russians -- including me -- and it’s heartbreaking to see, writes Asya Partan.
I’m a Russian in the diaspora. None of us can be complacent
I am a Russian-born person “turbulently infuriated” with my birth country, writes Anastasya Partan. A recent experience at a local Russian food store only exacerbated her sense of shame for...
Why people in my native Russia aren't protesting the attacks on Ukraine
Some of our friends and family in Russia say they don’t watch the news and that everything is fine, writes Anastasya Partan. Some sing Putin’s praises. Some admit that the...