NB! · Faith · Interviews · People · Rome
Pope Francis has said how he would like to die. Speaking of his health, past and present, Francis I answered the question “How do you imagine your death?”: “As Pope, either in office or as emeritus. And in Rome. I will not go back to Argentina.”
NB! · Aristocracy · Interviews · Monarchies · Paris · Society Pages
Paris Match managed to prepare, in time for the betrothal, a lengthy interview with the "tsarevich", Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and Rebecca, christened in July 2020 as Victoria Romanovna, Bettarini. We await the print version
Archaeology · Interviews · Science · People
The lovely Maria Dobrovolskaya, head of the Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has spoken on a most unusual subject: vegetarianism and ancient people. Besides such questions as vegetarians among the ancestors of modern man and the influence of diet on
Interviews · Books · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" [Classics Without the Boredom] at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club. The number of guests was incredible, and
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Interviews · Museums · Heritage · Nature
Today, for the Museum Affairs series, we spoke with Nadezhda Kulakova, Director of the Griboyedov Khmelita State Museum-Reserve of History, Culture and Nature. Nadezhda Viktorovna kindly told us how Khmelita looks after its ancient trees, which were already fully grown in Griboyedov's day. - - We reported on the
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In 2011 the distinguished French historian Pierre Nora gave an interview to the Russian scholar of identity, Doctor of Historical Sciences Elena Filippova, and touched upon a subject of some interest in present circumstances: the French constitutional reform of 2008. I give an abridged extract: “A good example, which I
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Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, in conversation with Georgy Stepanovich Zhzhenov about the war, voices an interesting thought about a people that calls itself great, yet for some reason lets itself be led on a leash like a calf, chooses a criminal government for itself and condemns itself to a beggarly existence.
Interviews · Heritage · Society
The last surviving witness of the mass shootings at Babyn Yar has given an interview to RTVI. Estimates of the number of people shot in the ravine near Kyiv between 1941 and 1943 vary from 70,000 to 200,000. A tragic monument to a history that must not be
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But all the same, it is an interesting interview, do read it. Alexievich makes some quite reasonable points: a weak state intends to save only itself, and she draws parallels with the Chernobyl catastrophe. She recalls, for example, how Western aid then settled with the officials and, instead of real
NB! · Interviews · Cinema · Observations · Education · People
Jean-Luc Godard, aged 89, live on the Instagram of the University of Lausanne, where he once taught a course on cinema. One gets the feeling that Godard does not quite grasp what the young people are up to here, and simply chills, puffing on a cigar as he answers
Coming Up · Interviews · Art · Museums · Society Pages
Friends! I invite you to the private view of Maxim Boxer's exhibition A Collector's Dream at the In Artibus foundation. Max is in the photograph and sends his regards; he kindly answered a few simple questions by way of a first introduction to his collection. The