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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s
Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026
Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,
A Case in Which the Image of an Ancient Nubian Ruler Could Be Mistaken for a Figure of Christ
The petroglyph from Misida (2) in northern Sudan, near the Third Cataract of the Nile, consists of a male figure about two and a half metres tall and two goats. The figure is thought to depict a ruler of Kush, the ancient kingdom in Nubia, in present-day Sudan, whose
On the Subject of Moscow's Closed Bookshops
On the subject of Moscow's closed bookshops. Akademkniga on Vavilov Street did not survive the realities of life in the 2020s. Many will probably remember what a shock its closure was in 2019, later briefly interrupted by the shop's reopening. But in 2021, incidentally the Year