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Well, today on his annual phone-in Putin announced a "Pushkin Card" for young people aged 14 to 22, due to come into operation as early as the autumn. The card is promised a balance of 3,000 roubles. For some period, until next year or thereabouts, it
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Faith · Observations · People · Rome
Yesterday the 85-year-old Pope Francis I congratulated his predecessor and good friend, His Holiness Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus, on the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination. Benedict is now 94; he lives in a monastery on the territory of the Vatican and prays unceasingly for the Holy Church.
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Alexander I Kisses Napoleon on a Raft in the Middle of the Niemen during the Conclusion of the Peace of Tilsit in June 1807. Napoleon would later describe Alexander I as "a true Byzantine, cunning, feigning, subtle". Indeed, only shortly before the meeting on the Niemen and the
Art · Moscow · Heritage · People · Nature
In the Stock Greenhouse of the Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, the decorative treatment of the doors has been touchingly preserved: panels of dried plants assembled by the Soviet artist Sofya Vasilyevna Matveyeva (1904-1986). Sofya Matveyeva worked in the Main Botanical Garden almost from its founding, under Nikolai Tsitsin himself,
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Architecture · Books · Reportage · Society Pages
Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle. The landscape park, laid out right on a bog, is
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Science · Paris
An ominous sign? At Versailles, the Passemant perpetual clock has stopped. This famous astronomical clock, acquired by Louis XV on the recommendation of the French Academy of Sciences, is supposed to display dates up to the last day of the year 9999, but something has gone wrong.. The clockmakers of
Coming Up · Art · Society
On 26 June the Lazy Mike gallery opens "You Are Not Alone", a charity exhibition: proceeds from the sale of works by 12 contemporary Russian women artists will go to the women's mutual aid fund of the same name. Among the works are some we have
Moscow · Society · Pop Culture
The artistic director of the Oleg Tabakov Moscow Theatre, the actor Vladimir Mashkov, has spoken out on the introduction of QR codes for admission to cultural institutions:. "I was vaccinated as soon as the opportunity arose, I was one of the first to have the jab, and I consider
Cinema · Books
The first of three screen versions of H. G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1932 Erle C. Kenton, 1977 Don Taylor, 1996 Frankenheimer-Stanley) may seem the most naive, but on reflection "Island of Lost Souls" is quite a modern horror story, whose