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The iconostasis of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra is under restoration
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In Cleveland, an abandoned bus is to become a museum of immigration
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Law bans depicting places of worship without religious symbols in media, advertising and emblems
A Law on the Protection of Religious Symbols Has Been Adopted. The law amends the federal law "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations" and prohibits the use of images of religious buildings and other objects bearing religious symbols with those symbols removed, in the media, in
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Ancient mosaic taken from Italy during the war returned to Pompeii Archaeological Park
Even 80 years after the end of the Second World War, stolen works of art continue to return to their rightful owners. Among the recent high-profile cases of restitution is the return to the granddaughters of the Viennese collector Adalbert Parlagi of Claude Monet's painting "The
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Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia
Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia. These are the so-called Berkasovo-Jarak helmets. Two similar gold pieces were found in one place. They probably belong to a hoard assembled by a barbarian warrior after combing a battlefield. The
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Migrant workers making Loro Piana clothing work 18-hour days
Loro Piana placed under judicial administration after details emerge of its clandestine production in illegal Chinese workshops right in Milan. Serious labour violations in the Italian fashion industry have long been a matter of talk, and every so often the fashion world is rocked by another scandal. Dior, Valentino and
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Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
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The French Think of Abolishing Victory Day
The Prime Minister of the French Republic, François Bayrou, has proposed abolishing the day off on Easter Monday and on Victory Day, which in France, as in other European countries, falls on 8 May. Formally, this is to cut the budget deficit. Of the 11 public holidays on which the
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Page of a medieval Greek manuscript with miniatures in the margin
Faith · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Khludov Psalter, a ninth-century Byzantine manuscript in the State Historical Museum
The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register. The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It