Sentence examples for russian critics from inspiring English sources

Russian military and political leaders in the past two decades have often been criticized — by Russian critics, and by Chechens — for failing to read Tolstoy and heed his lessons about the particularities of Chechnya.

"Semyon Kotko" was the Maryinsky's latest critical success; "War and Peace" got a more mixed reaction from Russian critics, although the barbs were saved mostly for Mr. Konchalovsky's staging, which some found to be half Russian, half Hollywood, and featuring the worst of both.

The Russian critics disagreed.

The Russian critics were seduced too.

Forward-thinking Russian critics were astonished by this.

Russian critics loved it when it was performed in Helsinki; a Finnish newspaper savaged it.

Some contemporary Russian critics, too, were appalled by this didactic, philosophical presence.

Russian critics were not wowed: they thought it looked ominously German.

There is even a copycat production of "Sex and the City," which was panned by Russian critics.

Mr. Shteyngart said that some of the reviews of his work by Russian critics could be summarized as "Balding traitor betrays homeland".

Russian critics around 1910 were congratulating themselves that Russian music no longer had to assert its right to exist by sounding Russian.