Geography · Heritage · Society · Humour
Visit the village in the Chelyabinsk Region, founded in 1842 by the Orenburg Cossack Host and named in honour of the Russian army's victory at Paris. Not far from Paris, one may also visit other monuments to the victories of Russian troops in Europe: the villages of Leipzig,
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Most of the incidents are acts of vandalism against churches (62% of the total), desecration of Christian holy places (24%), arson (10%), threats (8%) and physical violence (7%). The report singles out the following flagrant cases: an attack with a machete by a Moroccan national on clergy and parishioners of
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I have read a most peculiar story about the Resnicks, an American family of billionaire collectors who have come into the public eye because of the wildfires in California. The point is that, besides an enormous art collection in Beverly Hills, which includes works by Fragonard, Boucher and Picasso, besides
Monarchies · Society · People · Humour
Trump will not deport Prince Harry:. I don't want to do that. I'll leave him alone. He has enough problems with his wife as it is. She's terrible
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Will Trump deport Prince Harry? A good, interesting question. The case concerning Harold's visa and the reliability of his visa documents is to be reheard in court. The story began with the ill-starred and scantly talented memoir Spare, after reading which the right people noticed a discrepancy
Museums · Observations · Society · Paris
So, let us take a close look at the decision of the Louvre's management to introduce a separate, though in fact additional, ticket for admission to the room with the "Mona Lisa". Judging by my own impressions as a visitor, based on five to seven visits
Art · Museums · Society · Paris
The ticket will be purchased as a supplement to the ticket for the main exhibition. "Our proposal is to accept the exceptional status of the Mona Lisa," said des Cars, calling the painting "a blessing for the Louvre". Yet only a few days ago Macron announced
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Churchill is credited, among a great many others, with the quip that Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he did not know where he was going, did not know where he was, and did it all at the taxpayer's expense. The sole point of the remark seems to
Museums · Observations · Society · Paris
A letter from the director of the Louvre to France's Minister of Culture has "leaked" to the press, in which the former complains to the latter about leaks of water, excessive visitor numbers, feeble infrastructure and the strain on the museum caused by e. De Carlo,
Books · Society
The Bolshaya Kniga (“Big Book”) literary prize has changed its rules. From now on, the prize may be won only once. That is to say, the case of Yevgeny Vodolazkin, who became its laureate three times, in 2013, 2016 and 2023, or of Leonid Yuzefovich, who received the prize in
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The Russian theatre was founded in Paris in 1921 and run by Yakov Yuzhny, at one time celebrated as a compère and teller of Jewish stories. Yuzhny toured extensively with the Blue Bird, which was enormously popular in Germany, but by the 1930s something had to be decided: to practise
Faith · Science · Society · Rome
The Governorate of Vatican City, the executive body of the city-state, has established certain rules governing the use of AI on Vatican territory and set up a special Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The main provisions of the document speak of the need to respect human dignity, to ensure the