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Despite the sudden loss of 1.6 million bee colonies in a mass die-off across the US in a single year, the Trump administration plans to close the USDA's leading bee research laboratory

Between June 2024 and March 2025, 1.6 million bee colonies died in the United States. It is the largest single die-off in the country's history. Many beekeepers lost between 60 and 80% of their hives, and some lost 9 of 12 colonies in a single winter.

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Why can we never get it into our heads that black is white, and felling trees is "improvement"

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"The Angel of History," wrote Benjamin, "has his face turned toward the past, but a storm is blowing from Paradise and propels him irresistibly into the future

"The Angel of History," wrote Benjamin, "has his face turned toward the past, but a storm is blowing from Paradise and propels him irresistibly into the future. What to us appears as a chain of events, to him is one single catastrophe." March turned out to

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Sergey Kuznetsov Steps Down as Moscow's Chief Architect, a Post He Has Held Since 2012

Sergey Kuznetsov has left his post as Moscow's chief architect, which he had held since 2012. After almost 14 years in the position, he intends to turn to projects of his own

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An Open-Air Reading Room in the Village of Sovetskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region

The appetite for reading in an ordinary Russian village in 1932

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It is striking how closely what is happening in the country today resembles the general mood in the upper reaches of power in the 1870s

The Russian publicist Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky, a Kammerherr (chamberlain) of Emperor Alexander II, wrote in 1870 to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich and Maria Feodorovna: All those who are not at court, all who work honestly for the good of the government and of Russia, who are selflessly devoted to

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Of all speculations the most accessible, and therefore the most widespread, is speculation in patriotism; love of the motherland sells most briskly of all, and in every age this has been a commodity in great demand

Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, "Damned and Killed"

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France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns

France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns. It is her first public interview in her new post. The occasion was the robbery of the museum on 19 October

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Miners' children at a rest home of the coal industry trade union in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region, on the shore of the three lakes, in 1953

Miners' children at a rest home of the coal industry trade union in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region, on the shore of the three lakes, in 1953. Do you think such bliss will ever be seen in Russia again?

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The Pharisees tried to prevent the Italian cardinal and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from celebrating Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre

Instead of the closed Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardinal decided to move the Mass to the Mount of Olives, precisely to the place where Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a

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On the one hand, there are many questions about what is happening in the frame: why consecrate an Oscar statuette in a church, and why turn it into a show?

On the other hand, one recalls every exposé of the Hollywood fraternity and the context of this particular award, and understands that such filth can be cleansed only by divine power. For those who have not recognised him, the photograph shows Alexei Uminsky performing the rite of consecration over an

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The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa

The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa League match against Lille.