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Pope Francis expresses shame before the victims after the report

Pope Francis has learned the findings of the French report on child abuse in the Church, and has called it "a moment of shame" "Shame on me, shame on us, for the Church's far too long inability to place the victims at the centre of

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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

Black-and-white group photograph of seven men in a studio, with a round emblem showing a playing-card jack and the words “Jack of Diamonds” on the left.

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Review of the first painting exhibition “Jack of Diamonds” at the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 1910

"This shameless card... recalls an asylum for the insane rather than an exhibition of works of art" From a review of the first Exhibition of Painting, "The Jack of Diamonds", which opened in the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka on 10 December 1910

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Found the right person to redirect the journalists of REN-TV who ask me about extraterrestrial cities in South America

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Sergey Tolstoy married the singer Maria Shishkina after parting with Tatyana Bers

Sofya Bagdasarova has published an interesting piece on love between Romani women and Russian noblemen in the nineteenth century. And here I cannot help recalling the love story of Maria Mikhailovna Shishkina, a singer in the Tula Romani choir, and Sergey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the elder brother of Leo Tolstoy. At

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A Very Peculiar Choice of Photograph for the Cover of the Daily News Announcing the Death of Marilyn Monroe

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One might consider it a prophecy of catastrophic climate change from 1912 come true, although humanity has pushed nature to the brink of existence and extinction not over centuries, as the futurologists of a century ago supposed, but in merely…

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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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Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic…

Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which for

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Rumours that the title of Duke of Edinburgh may not pass to Edward

The English press debates whether Prince Charles will defy the wishes of his late father: who is to inherit the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Edward, Earl of Wessex, as Prince Philip bequeathed it, or Charles after all, to whom it belongs by seniority? It was said as long ago

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The Daily Star comes out with a statue of Augustus bearing the England captain's face and a CAESAR MOMENT splash

Well, well... What might it signify, to portray Harry Kane as a Roman before England's match against Italy? Can the image of Kane as a statue be taken as mockery of his immobility? And is the Caesar moment, by any chance, a reference to the occasion when you

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The “Choosing Distance” exhibition at the Garage museum and a text about it in a new art media outlet

How to Enjoy Speculations and Fakes at the New Exhibition at Garage? At the height of the pandemic, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art invited artists to reflect on the future, and the result is a large exhibition, "Choosing Distance: Speculations, Fakes, Forecasts in the Age of the Coronacene&