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The Guardian has published a lengthy conversation with the writer Salman Rushdie, his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the director Alex Gibney
The attack on the writer took place on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, in upstate New York, where Rushdie was due to speak. Griffiths was at home in New York that morning and learned of what had happened by telephone from an acquaintance, the details reaching her only later through
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In a few minutes, in the assembly hall of the Peredelkino House of Creativity, our conversation with Marcello Simonetta about his new book "The Furious Farnese" will begin
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The president of the La Biennale foundation, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, said in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera that he would readmit Russia to the Biennale all over again, and considers his actions right and proper; as for the regulations…
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Well, That's a Turn-Up!
Well, that's a turn-up! Candace Owens in the studio of "Parsuna" with Vladimir Legoyda. The mission "from Twitter to the Paterikon" has officially begun. Congratulations to the team, and to Vladimir Romanovich personally! We await the broadcast, we are preparing our dogmatic remarks,
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Prohibitions Alone Will Not Do
Prohibitions alone will not do. The best defence is attack. A humanitarian intervention must be followed by a clever humanitarian response. The series «GDR» and «Dear Willy» have already appeared, but that is clearly not enough. Nor do these series touch on our own times. That is why I am
The East · Interviews · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The most important thing I managed to discuss with Mikhail Piotrovsky was not the perpetual succession of museum directors in Moscow, nor the robbery of the Louvre, nor even the hysterics around "colonial museums", but a very specific and direct question:
What lamps? Lamps of the 14th century, a fine example of Islamic applied art, once presented by Timur to the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi and kept there until the early 20th century. There were six such lamps in all. The Hermitage, it turned out, has two and a half,
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My long interview with Mikhail Piotrovsky has been published, timed to the release of his new book "I Am an Arabist" but focused mainly on the modern museum and the cultural environment around it
I met Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky after the presentation of his book at the Peredelkino House of Creativity. After several hours with the public, an autograph session and filming, the legendary Piotrovsky nonetheless received me with energy and good humour. I tried not to ask the questions that every journalist has
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It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology
It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology. Modern feudal lords travel not in carriages but in “six-hundred” Mercedes. And they keep their money not in chests but in Swiss banks. But mentally they are no different from the feudal lords of the
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Czech director Jiří Menzel (1938-2020) on censorship:
- In one of your interviews you said that cinema always faces some form of censorship. Yet it seems that in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s this apparatus gave artists a different "impulse" from the one the state or the system gives them today… - Magnificent films were made under censorship,
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Democracy is not necessarily the ideal solution to all problems
Pope Leo XIV. Prevost voiced this thought in a recent interview entitled "Synodality", which presents it as the way in which believers are together and strive for communion, embodied by the Church. Church belonging he calls an antidote to polarisation. If we listen to the Gospel, if we
Aristocracy · Interviews · Education · People
I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School
I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School. This was preceded by the wartime years and then a rather painful evacuation. My father had already sent my papers