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Robert De Niro in Moscow
Art · New York · Paris · Pop Culture
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
NB! · Observations · Society
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
Books · Observations · Mores · Pop Culture
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
The East · Society · People · Humour
To Go to War Without France Is Like Going Hunting Without an Accordion
American General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Gulf War in 1991
Books · Ethnography
He drank his fill of misfortunes, and grew drunk on tears
Russian proverb
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow
The Old Moskvoretsky Bridge and Zaryadye in 1898-99
Observations · Science · Society
The author proposes separating political ideologies from Hegel's Absolute Spirit
Perhaps this is merely the opinion of a man wearied by endless examinations in philosophy. But one would like, at long last, to demolish the noxious machinery of the Hegelian interpretation of history. Or at the very least to separate all existing political ideologies from his concept of the Absolute
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