It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untol…
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The story of Georgian wine has been 8,000 years in the making | Wine ⊕
Dubbed ‘the holiest of holies’, produce from this former Soviet republic today boasts a variety and deftness that’s sending sales surging
France, Italy and Spain purport to be the best-loved classical…
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Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar ⊖
There’s a lesson here for the UK and the anti-WHO Nigel Farage – Trump attacks it in public, but in private he knows he still needs it
Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he wi…
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‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth ⊖⊖⊖
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
In autumn 2022, G…
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Remembrance of Soviet massacre becomes pivotal for Azerbaijan's independence drive ⊖
On 20 January every year Azerbaijanis pay tribute to those who died in a bloody massacre committed by the former USSR against civilians to suppress the national liberation movement.
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Praise for people who died while trying to stop Bondi Beach attackers ⊖⊖
One of the bystanders who tried to stop the attack came to Australia from the USSR to escape anti-Semitic persecution.
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Kremlin says European claims Putin wants to attack NATO and restore the USSR are 'complete stupidity' ⊖⊖
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Opponents say Putin's Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the Soviet Union.
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Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky ○
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From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
In 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Un…
6 months ago
Sergei Lavrov trolls the West by wearing Soviet CCCP top to showdown between Trump and Putin in Alaska ○
The shirt has been seen as an inflammatory and offensive gesture towards Ukraine because CCCP is a Russian abbreviation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan ○
Books – on LGBTQ+ themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work
Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator, and the author…