Katie Davies

Katie Davies

Katie Davies is News Editor of The Calvert Journal. She moved to Moscow after graduating from the University of Sheffield in 2014, where she worked as a reporter for The Moscow Times. Her freelance work includes bylines in The Guardian, The Independent and Vice News. You can follow her on Twitter here.

Listen to the ‘ghetto sci-fi’-styled drop from the duo tearing up Tbilisi’s hip-hop scene

Music

Listen to the ‘ghetto sci-fi’-styled drop from the duo tearing up Tbilisi’s hip-hop scene

This photographer traces Moscow’s architectural history through its iconic metro stations

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This photographer traces Moscow’s architectural history through its iconic metro stations

Opening of Hermitage’s Moscow branch delayed until 2024

Culture

Opening of Hermitage’s Moscow branch delayed until 2024

Get a glimpse of the Kabakovs’ prize-winning Ship of Tolerance as it sets sail for London

Culture

Get a glimpse of the Kabakovs’ prize-winning Ship of Tolerance as it sets sail for London

This sci-fi thriller has just become the first Russian show on Netflix Originals

Culture

This sci-fi thriller has just become the first Russian show on Netflix Originals

Moscow’s summer of protest: this fashion film brings streetwear back to its anti-authoritarian roots

Fashion

Moscow’s summer of protest: this fashion film brings streetwear back to its anti-authoritarian roots

Dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale now has a Russian streetwear collab

Fashion

Dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale now has a Russian streetwear collab

Take a deep dive into the everyday objects that showcase Yugoslav design at its best

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Take a deep dive into the everyday objects that showcase Yugoslav design at its best

Meet FEDOR, the robot about to fly to the International Space Station

Tech

Meet FEDOR, the robot about to fly to the International Space Station

Russians are using the power of memes to fund independent journalism

Media

Russians are using the power of memes to fund independent journalism

Kazakhstan’s first LGBTQ magazine is committed to creating a community against the odds

Media

Kazakhstan’s first LGBTQ magazine is committed to creating a community against the odds

Total Solidarity: listen to the electronic mixtape supporting LGBTQ rights in Poland

Music

Total Solidarity: listen to the electronic mixtape supporting LGBTQ rights in Poland

Soon you’ll be able to drink radiation-free moonshine from Chernobyl grain

Business

Soon you’ll be able to drink radiation-free moonshine from Chernobyl grain

Take to the skies to experience the New East’s hidden architectural beauty

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Take to the skies to experience the New East’s hidden architectural beauty

Tito’s old yacht is being turned into a floating museum

Culture

Tito’s old yacht is being turned into a floating museum

Stop everything: Moscow’s Garage Museum cat has gone missing

Culture

Stop everything: Moscow’s Garage Museum cat has gone missing

Person of interest

Meet the former influencer behind a new body positive clothing brand in Romania

Get your hands on an AI-designed t-shirt that’s guaranteed to be unique

Tech

Get your hands on an AI-designed t-shirt that’s guaranteed to be unique

Find out why this art-activist is leaving braids of human hair on the St Petersburg metro

Culture

Find out why this art-activist is leaving braids of human hair on the St Petersburg metro

Enter the whimsical, neon-hued world of Polish tattoo artist Dżo Lama

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Enter the whimsical, neon-hued world of Polish tattoo artist Dżo Lama

Robot woodpeckers are coming to take over St Petersburg

Culture

Robot woodpeckers are coming to take over St Petersburg

Dance inside the ancient Georgian fortress getting ready to hold its first ever rave

Inspiration

Dance inside the ancient Georgian fortress getting ready to hold its first ever rave

The world’s first international cable car will whisk you away from Russia into China

Inspiration

The world’s first international cable car will whisk you away from Russia into China

This mesmerising digital art film imagines a future where your computer comes to life

Culture

This mesmerising digital art film imagines a future where your computer comes to life

Would you wear this avant-garde jewellery to protect your identity from CCTV?

Tech

Would you wear this avant-garde jewellery to protect your identity from CCTV?

This St Petersburg design team want your bong to have pride of place in your home

Design

This St Petersburg design team want your bong to have pride of place in your home

This art project is helping evicted Roma families reclaim their ruined homes

Culture

This art project is helping evicted Roma families reclaim their ruined homes

Underground artists unite for Moscow gig in support of sisters at heart of controversial domestic abuse trial

Music

Underground artists unite for Moscow gig in support of sisters at heart of controversial domestic abuse trial

These transformable, high-fashion exoskeletons are everything you need to make it through 2019

Fashion

These transformable, high-fashion exoskeletons are everything you need to make it through 2019

This Russian artist is creating a silent sanctuary in the heart of Moscow

Culture

This Russian artist is creating a silent sanctuary in the heart of Moscow

Watch the natural and digital worlds collide in this fashion shoot set in Kyiv’s suburbs

Fashion

Watch the natural and digital worlds collide in this fashion shoot set in Kyiv’s suburbs

Yekaterinburg mayor promises punishment after city workers tarmac over freshly-painted modern art

Culture

Yekaterinburg mayor promises punishment after city workers tarmac over freshly-painted modern art

Check out the ‘futuristic’ new Orthodox church being built in Moscow

Architecture

Check out the ‘futuristic’ new Orthodox church being built in Moscow