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The Fundamental Library of INION RAS opens trial access to the largest archive of digitised Chinese newspapers, the Contemporary Chinese Newspaper Full-Text Database, to a reprint database of the social sciences, and to Artron, with its albums and images
The Fundamental Library of INION RAS has opened trial access to the largest archive of digitised Chinese newspapers, the Contemporary Chinese Newspaper Full-Text Database, to a reprint database of the social sciences, and to Artron, with its albums and images on art. Until 30 June all of this may
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Saint Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia burns a 12-metre portrait of the godless Lenin during a May Day demonstration in Tbilisi in 1965
After he burned the portrait of Lenin, he was arrested, beaten and declared mentally ill, then dispatched for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital. He died in 1995 and was later canonised as a saint.
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April's main publications on “Three Sisters”, the Shroud of Turin, Losev and Oxyrhynchus
From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in
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Twenty-second manuscript of Caedmon's Hymn from the early 9th century found in Rome
Now let us praise the all-ruling keeper of heaven, the Lord's almighty power, his good and wise counsel and the creation of the giver of glory, how he, the eternal sovereign, gave a beginning to every wonder. He made a lofty roof for the children of earth,
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Castro's forty-day visit to the USSR in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro and the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya after a performance of Swan Lake. On 27 April 1963 Castro flew secretly to Murmansk in a Tu-114 and spent forty days in the USSR, the first visit by the Cuban leader to the Soviet Union. Khrushchev needed to mend relations after
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The 1389 will of Dmitry Donskoy and the end of tribute to the Horde under Ivan III
This remarkable phrase appears in the testament of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy. The whole sentence runs thus: "And should God change the Horde, my children shall not be obliged to give the tribute to the Horde, and whichever of my sons takes tribute in his own appanage, to him
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The future Louis XI isolated Charles VII from the court, and the king feared poisoning
The Parlement of Paris, or the Supreme Royal Court of France, in solemn session in the presence of King Charles VII. Miniature by Jean Fouquet from the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, 1450s. From about the summer of 1461, the future King Louis XI effectively isolated his father, Charles VII, in
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Dzerzhinsky Square during the days of the GKChP, 20–21 August 1991, photograph by Sergey Rusanov
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People stand outside banks with faces that bear the stamp of dull despair
People stand outside banks with faces that bear the stamp of dull despair. This is not the fury of 1991; it is the weariness of people who have been cheated once again. A question hangs in the air: can it really be starting all over again? Marietta Chudakova on the
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Burning of villages in the Moscow Region in 1941 and Stalin's order of 17 November
Homeless villagers in a village in the Istra District of Moscow Oblast, liberated from the Germans, December 1941. Photograph by Arkady Shaikhet. The situation in Moscow Oblast was a particular one: the occupation was brief, and the Germans held part of the districts for only a few months, from November
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Women berry pickers in a boat on the Biryusa River near the village of Lugovaya, 1990
Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara. Near the village of Lugovaya in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1990