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On the eve of her 87th birthday, Brigitte Bardot gave an interview to Parisien Magazine, speaking of her fight for animals, their lives and rights, of French presidents, and of the funerals of famous Frenchmen

First and foremost, Bardot spoke of the “barbarians, bastards, vile, rotten monsters” who inflict suffering on animals. She recalled, among other things, the shocking tragedy of the bloody slaughter of 1,428 cetaceans in a fjord in the Faroe Islands; on this occasion she wrote to the Prime Minister of

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Continuing our Papal Readings: the second part of Pope Francis's interview with Carlos Herrera

Continuing our Papal Readings, I offer the second part of Pope Francis's interview with Carlos Herrera. Read attentively; Saint Peter will be checking later. On euthanasia - We live in a culture of rejection. What is useless is thrown away. The old are disposable material: they irritate. Not all

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Pope Francis has given a long interview to Spanish radio

Pope Francis has given a long interview to Spanish radio. And, it seems, for the first time. I have listened to the two-hour conversation with the pontiff, restored to health by the grace of God, and made notes on the most important points. Whether or not you have already

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Pope Francis returns to duty after illness; yesterday he gave a lengthy radio interview to the Spanish journalist Carlos Herrera

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Alexandr Lukashev, Director of the Institute of Parasitology, in a lengthy interview with Kommersant on the differences in laboratory practice involving animals between Russia and European countries, on what the life of a mouse is worth to a scientist, an

Alexandr Lukashev, Director of the Institute of Parasitology, in a lengthy interview with Kommersant, spoke about the differences in laboratory practice involving animals between Russia and European countries, about what the life of a mouse is worth to a scientist, and about the ethics of animal research in general. The

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Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, photographed by Holly Fernando for The Telegraph

From the interview we learn that she is now the author of 77 books (for children) and has at last written a novel for adults, Heart for a Compass, about the vicissitudes of court life in the Victorian era, told through the story of her great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu

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An exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Library of Foreign Literature itself and the 120th anniversary of its founder, Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino, has opened at the library

An exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Library of Foreign Literature itself and the 120th anniversary of its founder, Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino, has opened at the library. The display includes the first director's personal belongings, letters and photographs. It also features an unusual multimedia element: an interview

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The youngest daughter of the artist Zinaida Serebriakova, Ekaterina (1913-2014), speaks of her childhood, her mother, her family, the flight from Bolshevik Russia, and how she too became an artist and resolved to devote her life to her mother

The youngest daughter of the artist Zinaida Serebriakova, Ekaterina (1913-2014), speaks of her childhood, her mother, her family, the flight from Bolshevik Russia, and how she too became an artist and resolved to devote her life to her mother. It is curious that Ekaterina Borisovna recalls the years when

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I Am a Kievan

I am a Kievan. And Chernobyl came into my life at the very moment it happened, on 26 April. More precisely, on the morning of the 27th. I was on my way to work on the metro, as usual. I still remember the name of the station, Arsenalna, where I

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Marietta Chudakova cites a fragment of a 1953 interview with A. F. Kerensky:

"...When Vladimir Ulyanov wished to enter Kazan University, he turned to my father for help. My father wrote a letter in which he recommended Vladimir Ulyanov as a model pupil. - That was a bold step on the part of your father, an imperial official, to give a letter of

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On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people

On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people. It was spoken of as "the interview that shook the world". Twenty-six years have passed, and it is still not entirely clear why

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The current head of the House of Habsburg, the grandson of Austria's last emperor, Charles I, 60-year-old Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, has commented on the scandalous interview given by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, speaking to Austria's large

The current head of the House of Habsburg, the grandson of Austria's last emperor, Charles I, 60-year-old Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, has commented on the scandalous interview given by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, speaking to Austria's largest newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung. He