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While Nobody Was Looking, the Toilers of Moscow's Municipal Budgetary Institutions from Central Asia Have Begun to Be Replaced by Specialists from Sunny Hindustan
While nobody was looking, the toilers of Moscow's municipal budgetary institutions (the GBU) from Central Asia have begun to be replaced by specialists from sunny Hindustan. The new ethnogeopolitical realities of our courtyard
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Macron Was Not Prepared for the Swedes to Take a Baguette Hostage
Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies
Model of the Elizabeth II memorial in St James's Park at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
A model of the memorial to Elizabeth II in St James's Park. The three-metre bronze figure will be based on a portrait of the Queen in her youth. In the background one can see a small sculpture of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The memorial complex
Coming Up · London · Museums · Society · Ethnography
British Museum opens exhibition on Indigenous peoples and American independence
The British Museum has opened a most interesting exhibition on the USA. It is not, however, a parade of panegyrics for the 250th anniversary of the United States, but a reminder that many indigenous peoples were not at all delighted by American independence. Although the exhibition, Declaring Independence: USA 250,
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Single-storey wooden house with white window frames behind a metal fence
Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Restoration completed of the Toplenin house on Mansurovsky Lane, which Bulgakov visited
The restoration of the Melnikov-Yemelyanova-Toplenin house on Mansurovsky Lane has been completed. This wooden residence on a nineteenth-century stone plinth is commonly called "the Master's house": rumour assigns the Master of The Master and Margarita a little basement flat in this very building.
Almaty · Archaeology · Observations · Science
Genomes of 85 Iron Age nomads show high status was inherited through kinship
A colossal new study changes our picture of how power was organised among the Scythians. According to a collective paper recently published in Science Advances, high status among the early nomads of Eurasia was inherited along family lines rather than won anew by each generation. The researchers analysed whole-genome
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage shows Titian’s “Saint Sebastian” after three years of restoration
An exhibition of a single painting, "Titian. The Last Masterpiece: Saint Sebastian", has opened at the Hermitage. The end of the canvas's three-year restoration coincides with the 450th anniversary of Titian's death. The picture was painted in the technique of pittura a macchia,
Archaeology · Archive · Books · Science
A team led by the University of Kentucky virtually unrolled a papyrus from Herculaneum
For the First Time in History, One of the Charred Herculaneum Scrolls Has Been Read in Full. An international team of engineers and scholars led by the University of Kentucky has virtually unrolled a papyrus from the Villa of the Papyri, the library that perished together with Herculaneum in the
Architecture · Heritage · Paris
Lead in the stage structure extends Opéra Garnier restoration to at least five years
Preparations for the restoration of the Paris Opéra Garnier, opened in 1875, have uncovered toxic lead in the structure of the stage, so works planned to take two years will stretch to at least five. As yet no decision has been made on the method by which the lead is
Art · Observations · New York · Nature
Thomas Cole, Kaaterskill Falls and the Beginning of the Hudson River School in 1826
If one is to recall how American painting began and what it portended, one must name the country's first major artistic movement, the Hudson River School. Its voice is usually presented as a hymn to untouched nature. But can you really not sense the anxiety in these majestic