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Observations · Science · Society · Nature

Kazakhstan Is Restoring the Tiger Population Lost at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

I have already told in detail how the last Turan tiger of the Great Steppe was killed by hunters in the last century. In 2025 I wrote that the actual release of tigers into the wild of Kazakhstan was still a long way off, and now it has come to

Cinema · Observations · Society

You may express your opinion, provided it is the right sort of opinion; otherwise it will not be taken into account

What a disgrace. Not content with cinemas openly infringing copyright and charging admission for stolen films, we now have online platforms deciding for themselves how film output is to be rated. - We are here -

NB! · Moscow · Education · Society

Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS

Science · Society

Until 1936, Soviet citizens directly elected only the representatives of local town and village soviets, which in turn sent delegates to the higher congresses, all the way up to the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

Until 1936, Soviet citizens directly elected only the representatives of local town and village soviets, which in turn sent delegates to the higher congresses, all the way up to the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. In the 1920s voting was open and conducted by a show of hands. The

NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Society

A historically accurate reconstruction, though the contractor has connections at City Hall

Archive · Architecture · Monarchies · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg

It turns out that for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, in 1927, the monument to Alexander III on Uprising Square was put in a cage

The project was devised by the architect Ivan Fomin, author of the concept of proletarian classicism, known for the NKVD building on Lubyanka and the interiors of the Moscow Metro stations Krasnye Vorota and Teatralnaya. Alexander III sat behind these bars for ten years, until he was transferred to the

Archive · Art · Moscow · Society

OURS: The Turbulent Growth of Socialist Construction, Tens of Millions of Collective Farmers, the Energy and Enthusiasm of Millions, the Creative Enthusiasm of the Masses

THEIRS: Crisis, unemployment, hunger, destitution and the preparation of war against the USSR. And mind you don't mix them up! A two-part poster by the artists Gleb Grigoryev and Boris Iordansky on the not yet demolished Iverskaya or Voskresenskiye Gates in the wall of Kitay-gorod. Photograph

Art · Observations · Science · Society

An article in the journal of the American Psychological Association examines how accusing an artist of a crime changes the public's attitude to his works

Participants in the experiment were asked to assess a work of art, then told that its author stood accused of one crime or another, and asked to assess the work afresh, being asked along the way whether the display of this work ought to be restricted. The upshot was that

Art · Heritage · New York · Society

The heirs of the Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner continue to go to law over Modigliani's 1918 "Seated Man with a Cane", which they consider their rightful property, believing it to have been seized from the estate of their forebear during…

A couple of weeks ago the court ordered the present owner of the disputed painting, the art dealer David Nahmad, to return it to Stettiner's heirs. Now it has further ruled that the heirs are entitled to interest for the period preceding the judgment in the case of

The East · Geography · Observations · Society

One must understand that the feral hordes now storming Spain are making their way not to the mainland part of the kingdom, but to Spain's African possessions

One must understand that the feral hordes now storming Spain are making their way not to the mainland part of the kingdom, but to Spain's African possessions. And this is not about the arrival of yet more multitudes of thousands in Europe, since they are arriving there quite

NB! · Observations · Society · Paris

I wonder whether, forty years from now, people will post photographs of Macron in the same spirit in which we post snapshots of Chirac?

Art · Museums · Society

In early September 2025 the US State Department, which is responsible for the American pavilion, formally notified the curator John Ravenal that his project with the artist Robert Lazzarini had been selected for the Venice Biennale

In early September 2025 the US State Department, which is responsible for the American pavilion, formally notified the curator John Ravenal that his project with the artist Robert Lazzarini had been selected for the Venice Biennale. The project was called History Maker, and its institutional partner and sponsor was the