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The Descendants of Anika Sergeyev, Son of Yeltsyn. The family tree of Boris Yeltsin, compiled by Dmitry Panov and published in 1992 in Perm by the Association of Amateur Genealogists, goes back to Anika Sergeyev, son of Yeltsyn, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. The family hails
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Remember how in "The Death of Stalin" Beria rushes frantically to break open the safe in the leader's study and removes a folder of documents from it? And yet Beria was credited with crimes similar to Epstein's line of business...
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The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations. The USSR, for its part, had repudiated the foreign debt back in 1918. You understand, talk of the great past is another matter
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In the twenty-first century, Helen of Troy is barely recognisable! In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the most beautiful woman in the world is played by the Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o
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Wooden tools found on the shore of a lake in Greece are believed by scholars to be the oldest known to date. Their age is estimated at roughly 430,000 years. I remain convinced, all the same, that half a million years is a rather modest figure beside the true
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⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year? With the regular fixtures, of course. In April, from the 23rd to the 26th, Nizhny Novgorod will once again host the Intervals Festival, the international media art festival: the first of its kind in Russia, running
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Leo Tolstoy, Youth