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Sincere joy at a lavish wedding of friends who borrowed 10k the day before
Diana Vishneva's Festival of Contemporary Choreography
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Leave the Pain to the Plebs
Bulky Biceps: that's more our style
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Sculpture fragment on slender supports before a lit panel
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations
Alexander Kutovoy's solo exhibition Bulky Biceps Trying To Fly at Fabula gallery
To give strength to the weak and cast the mighty into nothingness, To take happiness from the happy, to raise the obscure suddenly to greatness, To straighten a bent frame or bend the back of the proud -. Easy work for a pentatroch. Alexander Kutovoy has created an entire universe and,
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Nikolskaya Street in Moscow from its renaming to pedestrianisation in 2013
The Historical and Archival Institute. A photograph from the late 1990s: 25 October Street has only recently become Nikolskaya Street again, but has not yet become the pedestrian one we know today 1995: not yet 2000: still no 2005: no, not yet 2010: not for the moment 2013: hurrah! Nikolskaya
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When they tell you that you look like a picture, do ask exactly how, and by whom, it was painted
Faith · Interviews · Society · People
Pope Francis in a Spanish radio interview on migrants, the European Union and Catalonia
Pope Francis has given a long interview to Spanish radio. And, it seems, for the first time. I have listened to the two-hour conversation with the pontiff, restored to health by the grace of God, and made notes on the most important points. Whether or not you have already
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Pope Francis returns to duty after illness; yesterday he gave a lengthy radio interview to the Spanish journalist Carlos Herrera
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The Piano on Which All the Hits of the Russian Pop Stage Are Written
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Once They Bury Their Noses in Their Gadgets: how much better things were in the old days!
In the old days: Portraits in the Countryside, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876
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The word abiturient changed its meaning from school leaver to applicant
Originally, the word abiturient was used to mean "a pupil finishing secondary school, a school-leaver". Today it has acquired practically the opposite sense: not one who leaves school, but one who applies for admission. As late as the 1960s, explanatory dictionaries described abiturients exclusively as school-leavers.