Natasha Rogoff: Muppets in Moscow

Who doesn’t know Sesame Street, the American educational children’s television series that premiered in 1969 and runs on animation and puppetry. It is one of the longest-running shows in history. And it has been adapted for dozens of other countries. In a must-read new book Natasha Lane Rogoff describes the harrowing conversion to Ulitsa Sezam for Russia and Ukraine. And yes, there is a chess connection.