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“I live in a flat whose doors are guarded by the police round the clock. Nobody is admitted to see me except members of my family. The price my old friend from Gorky pays for knowing us is an interrogation by the KGB after every visit. There is no telephone
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The Dark One and the Fair One. One can live by Shakespeare in Mariupol. When the Germans entered the dusty town, nothing in life seemed to have changed, for apples were still apples, and a house was still a house, and the October sun went down into the bay just
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I have received my author's copy of BADLON, the new ultra-fashionable zine, for which I wrote the closing text on an art project devoted to bell-ringing. The magazine can be bought at КМ20 and on their website, at a very handsome price: 3700.
In the Press · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The recent, almost viral surge of interest in the occasionally hilarious and thoroughly un-Peter-Jacksonian television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, as staged by Leningrad television in the 1990s, has raised a question of sorts: is it really so surprising that citizens of the USSR were acquainted
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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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The Parnassian Mockingbird has made the top 100 books at the Non/fiction intellectual literature fair, and at the AST stand they said it had sold out as early as yesterday. But should you need it, the book is still available in the shops and online
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News from the world of books. Nastya Ivleeva and the Parnassian Mockingbird 🥰
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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 largest newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung. He
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What is better to give one's beloved: sperm whale teeth, a leg of lamb, a little gold, or a bouquet of tulips in the old-fashioned way? In the pre-holiday Kommersant Style supplement I have mused on the place of gifts in the annals of world culture.
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Crown Princess Victoria, 43, Duchess of Västergötland and heir to the Swedish throne, has been named Straight Person of the Year by the Swedish monthly LGBTQ magazine QX-magazine. The award was given to Princess Victoria for her inspiring speech at last year's Stockholm Pride. In the photograph,
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The Mirror reports that the Queen and Kate Middleton are planning a special TV show on the very day Meghan Markle is to be interviewed by Oprah. Well, well, what scheming minxes. But here is how it really is. The Queen and Kate will appear in a programme in place