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An address by Maria Vladimirovna Romanova has been published on the website of the Russian Imperial House

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At Lavrov's Address, One Wishes to Remark on a Very Handsome Carpet

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Share of Russian gas in selected European countries' imports, 2021

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If the Corinth Canal, linking the Aegean and Ionian seas, was opened in 1893, how did the BBC come by this photograph of the ship Argo sailing through it, bearing Jason and the Argonauts from the 27 states of the EU in quest of the Golden Fleece?

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Young people with cocktails at numbered tables in a room with red curtains

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Allow Me to Preen a Little Longer in Dior and Gucci

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The Fence of the French Consulate General in Moscow

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Cardinal Bergoglio and Pope John Paul II

Cardinal Bergoglio and Pope John Paul II. Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a cardinal on 21 February 2001; twelve years later he would be elected Pope.

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The writer and naturalist Vera Chaplina (1908-1994) with her charges

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Vera Chaplina with a lion cub at the Moscow Zoo, magazine clipping

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Photograph by François-Marie Banier of Boulevard Raspail in Paris, January 2005

Boulevard Raspail, Paris, January 2005. Photo by François-Marie Banier

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Claude Monet in His Garden at Giverny