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NB! · Observations · Society
Greetings to women on 8 March with wishes of love, well-being and a spring mood
Sweet girls, lovely women, wonderful ladies! Congratulations on 8 March! I wish you love, prosperity and a springtime mood, and may you never forget your divine significance! Everything most beautiful ever created in this world has been inspired by you!
Art · Moscow · Museums · Society
Sergey Bocharov's portrait of the Night Witches and the 46th Guards Regiment's combat record
Group Portrait of the Heroine Airwomen of the 46th Guards Taman Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Order of the Red Banner and Order of Suvorov, by Sergey Bocharov, 1985. The painting was acquired by the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics of DOSAAF, where it is on display to this day.
Archive · Moscow · Society · People
Artist Valery Yurlov recalls the crush at Stalin's funeral in Moscow
And then, when Stalin was being buried, I walked past the coffin. There was a terrible crush, and I reached the coffin only because I walked over people's heads. Quite literally. I was with a friend, a former soldier, who knew the area very well, since he lived
Archive · Moscow · Society
An archive of photographs of Stalin's Moscow and other Soviet cities, taken by a US embassy employee expelled from the country for espionage, found in the cupboard of an old house
While in Moscow, Major Martin Manhoff of the US Army, attached to the embassy, was restricted in his movements, yet he managed to take unique photographs of a Soviet world of sharp contrasts. Major Manhoff served at the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he
Cinema · Society · People
The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community
The decision to dissolve the Russian Oscar Committee must be taken by the cinematic community. This opinion was expressed to TASS by Mikhail Shvydkoy, the Russian President's Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation. "This is a question that the filmmakers themselves must decide," he said, stressing
NB! · Faith · The East · Monarchies · Society · Humour
Something of interest about the Western powers and their tender concern for Eastern Europe and Christian civilisation: in the nineteenth century the Russian Empire could several times have wrested Constantinople from the Ottomans, but France and Great Bri
Books · Society
French Author Vincent Delacroix's Book on Illegal Migrants, "The Little Boat", Longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature
French author Vincent Delacroix's book on illegal migrants, "The Little Boat", has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature. Vincent Delacroix, winner of the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman in 2009, examines the tragic deaths of illegal migrants who try to
Faith · Observations · Society · People · Rome
Pope Francis shows signs of improvement, but prognosis remains cautious on the thirteenth day of hospitalisation
This is how Pope Francis looked at the general audience in the Vatican on 12 February 2025, two days before his hospitalisation. Although the Pope's condition is reported to be showing signs of improvement, Vatican officials have stressed that "the prognosis remains guarded", as his hospitalisation
Books · Society
Since there are no significant political forces opposing the transformation of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is a struggle to preserve one's humanity in an ever more artificial world
Julius Evola
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s
The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s. The decision to publish the minutes was taken on 12 February, in response to the lively debate
NB! · The East · Society · Humour