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Alexandr Radayev
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The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives
The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives. We are speaking of wills covering at least the last two hundred years. This is held to be a boon for historians and genealogists, who will gain access to the documents. Where does this initiative
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However You Pray for the Weekend to Be Prolonged, the Working Week Comes Round All the Same
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Simply Incredible Photograph of the Moon
Coming Up · Moscow · Observations · Pop Culture · Reportage · Saint Petersburg · Humour
In a world after some irreversible catastrophe, only one Oleg Kikimora remains: a thinker shaped like a bun, wrinkled as a dried fig, who lives in a deadly bog and arranges his existence under the dictatorship of aggressive flora and…
To keep boredom at bay, Oleg Kikimora sets up his own radio station, SPGS, and with his broadcasts shatters the silence of a nature reserve in hiding, lit only by smoky skies and the occasional saluting meteorite. The radio's programme consists of conversations with subscribers, for instance an
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Snowdrifts on Kuznetsky Most in 1918
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Rider drawn on fabric beside a straw sculpture in a gallery
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Fabric drawing of a woman in white on horseback and a straw sculpture in a museum hall
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Nicholas II Does Not Represent
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Otar Ioseliani in an interview with Yury Rost on culture and cinema in Russia
Last year saw the publication of a long interview by Yury Rost with Otar Iosseliani, who passed away today in his 90th year. The director describes how he found culture and cinema in Russia. — You haven't been in the country for a long time. What has changed in
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
New look for the rooster as the decor is recreated after the original was lost in a fire
It is disconcerting that the new symbol of Notre-Dame de Paris differs so greatly from the original figure made by the French sculptor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, author of the statues of the twelve apostles at the foot of the spire. And yet one may see a certain logic in
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