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I Love Watching Panic
Michel Houellebecq
Alexandr Radayev
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Lorry damages the façade of Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment
KAMAZ: Looks Like I Really Am the First at This Arch. The Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment: in pain
In the Press · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
Louvre director Laurence des Cars resigns four months after the museum robbery
What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation. And he promptly sent her off to work on cooperation between major museums as part of
Archive · Cinema · Moscow · People · Pop Culture
Robert De Niro's visits to Moscow from 1982 to 2015 and Kozakov's recollections
Robert De Niro first visited Moscow in February 1982, on the eve of filming Emil Loteanu's "Anna Pavlova", in a cameo as the ballerina's impresario Solomon Yurok. The participation of a Hollywood star might have secured the film a release in the United States,
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Actor Alexander Mizev shares behind-the-scenes photographs from the set of the series based on The Captain's Daughter, directed by Dmitry Litvinenko
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Bearded man and young woman holding a rose in a black-and-white photograph
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Robert De Niro in Moscow
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Dalí's Set for the Ballet “Bacchanale” by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1939
Paris auction house Bonhams to offer Salvador Dalí's largest painting, or rather a theatre backdrop measuring 20 by 30 metres. Dalí created the backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, a surrealist production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dalí also wrote the libretto and designed some of the
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The head of the Znanie Society, Maxim Dreval, has declared that the citation rate of the society's lecturers has drawn level with that of Nobel Prize laureates
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If You Fear the Nineties Enough, You May Easily Fail to Notice the Thirties
Observations · Science · Education · Society
In Russia, Fines Are Being Recorded for Mentioning Materials from Universities and Educational Centres Designated by the Ministry of Justice as “Undesirable Organisations”
The first precedents date from the end of 2025, when a member of staff at Yaroslavl Pedagogical University was fined 20,000 roubles for references to such educational organisations in a scholarly publication. At the beginning of 2026 a female employee of the Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute received a similar
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A quotation on how concern for fashionable clothing hinders a good life
As for the ladies' fever for fashion weeks and new collections, I can only recall the words of Leo Tolstoy in "A Calendar of Wisdom":. Nothing stands so much in the way of a good life as the concern that one's clothes should be handsome