A new play, Black Milk, offers a worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia as seen from the bottom of the heap. The setting is a remote railway station in a remote part of the 'Boundless Motherland'. S
'You attempt your home-grown welfare and the results are like this. Look: drug addicts, delinquents and the dregs of society.'In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. W
Dima is 19. Tomorrow he'll join the army and go to fight in Chechnya. Tonight he's trying to have a party in the flat he shares with his drunken dad.Lera is 20 and lives in the same block. She reckons
