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Almost 15 years have passed since the release of the film «Vysotsky. Thank God I'm Alive», and since then, it seems, the media have rarely recalled the Soviet Union's foremost bard. And now CHTIVO is bringing out an issue devoted entirely to Vladimir Vysotsky. I am
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Loro Piana placed under judicial administration after details emerge of its clandestine production in illegal Chinese workshops right in Milan. Serious labour violations in the Italian fashion industry have long been a matter of talk, and every so often the fashion world is rocked by another scandal. Dior, Valentino and
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
Faith · Observations · Society · Humour
The Prime Minister of the French Republic, François Bayrou, has proposed abolishing the day off on Easter Monday and on Victory Day, which in France, as in other European countries, falls on 8 May. Formally, this is to cut the budget deficit. Of the 11 public holidays on which the
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Comrades, why are you crowding into a queue when the ticket terminals are perfectly free? A strange habit, all the same
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I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise. Thank you, Lord, that naivety still lives among people, and a truly holy simplicity
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Astonished by the qualities of the Korean mythical creature Yeongno, which devours corrupt aristocrats and state officials, and which, if it consumes a hundred such wealthy men in the course of its life, is admitted to paradise. Fairy tales one longs to believe in
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“He came in a suit and did not look like a madman”. a brief but pithy remark on the social importance of observing the dress code
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Enough hanging from the ceiling. Back to the reality of the new working week!
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Union Veterans, Northerners, and Confederate Veterans, Southerners, at the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913. And yet, had the Battle of Gettysburg ended differently, we might today have had two distinct states: the Northern States and the Confederacy. The Russian Empire, in the person